Human reliability

According to section 15 of the first essay On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche, he starts out by saying, “If faith in what? In love of what? In hope of what?---The weak people---some day or other they too intend to be strong there is no doubt of that, some day their kingdom” too shall come---they term it “the kingdom of God,” of course, as aforesaid: for one is so very humble in all things” (Nietzsche, 1989, p. 48). I think he ask these questions to get his audience to truly…

John McWhorter, argues, “The new idea that it is … grievous when a dominant group imitates a subordinate one’s cultural traits gets us nowhere.” In this Columbia Professors’ New York Times article Borrowing from Other Cultures Is Human Nature, McWhorter identifies what the relationship between imitation and appropriation is. Clearly, McWhorter expresses an unpopular opinion regarding cultural appropriation. With that, there is truth to what he has to say. The idea that appropriation is, at its…

superhuman capabilities. In creationism there is one god who is the one powerful and perfect god who created everything including humans with no expectation of anything in return. Creationism supporters and believers have an idea that there is only one god and no one human could be as incredible as him unlike the Greeks who believed there were many gods and that a human could be a god. The bible is a book that was wrote by many, but influenced by god. Its intentions are to explain…

A paradox refers to a statement, proposition, or situation that seems to be absurd or contradictory, but in fact is or may be true. One of the more famous paradoxes when it comes to wildlife conservation is the Trophy Hunter’s Paradox. Hunting wildlife, especially endangered animals, seems antithetical to conservation. And yet, conservation hunting seems to be the next “big thing” in conservation. Why is conservation hunting so important to the climate of conservation today? I believe this is an…

Moral Responsibility In this paper, I will first discuss why the principle of alternate possibilities (PAP) is true by sharing David Copp’s example of PAP and moral responsibility. Then, the argument will be rejected by Frankfurt’s example of a person being neither indifferent nor stampeded by a threat so the person is still morally responsible. Finally, I will show why Frankfurt does not defeat PAP because there are actions that are bigger than the threat being made. To start with, I will…

Humans have the ability to reason, and that makes us superior to other plants and animals. Our ability to reason gives one a purpose or goal in life, and the purpose is to do good and make the right decision. Making the right decision helps an individual to thrive towards the ultimate goal of happiness. Some of these decisions are self- implicated, whereas some are the obligation that comes with trying to be a successful person. Intentions, Good Acts, and Human Freedom, a chapter by William…

“But whatever happiness is, we know that we want it, and that is just somehow good.” (CNN, Landau) Point 1: In Why Happiness Is Healthy article, this message stood out to me because I agree with statement Landau made. I have personally experience several times dealing with want to substitute happiness. When wanting a specific good, it can either be materialism or physical. I understand hot cheetos are extremely harmful towards the body’s immune system. However, hot cheetos satisfy me while I…

Education is essential in order to become a well-rounded, reasonable human being. Without education people have no reason to question what they read or hear and do not have the ability to assess critically what they hear even if they do desire to question it. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” from Book 7 of “The Republic” theorizes on what would occur if a prisoner chained in a cave, exposed only to shadows on a wall were to break free of his chains. Plato theorized that when the prisoner was…

conversable animal, than associate degree kid of each day, or a week, or maybe a month" (LaFollette, 110). He argues that if we tend to cannot experiment on humans with severe brain injury or defective infants, then we must always not experiment on animals. What is more, killing animals for food would be an equivalent as killing these humans for food. Singer is speech that if rather than treating some defective infants that do not stand a chance; we…

As humans, we may think that our mind is our own personal space; that we have our own unique ideas,behavior and thoughts.In fact, that is contradicted by the existence of memes. As a matter fact, our ideas have their individual representative that evolution has over time copied into other human brains. As a result that is what makes us different from animals and even technology; our ability to have memes control us as Susan Blackmore explains in her essay “Strange Creatures”. For instance, Susan…