Augustine was a Christian philosopher who believed that people have the free will to make their own decisions and choices. One example is the choice between good or evil. He also believed that people should be searching for and obtaining eternal goods, rather than desiring temporal goods. In many aspects Chris McCandless from Into The Wild was searching for eternal goods and the divine. McCandless was a vagabond who sold all of his belongings and decided to hitchhike across the United States. He…
Act I - “Be More Chil Part 2” by Joe Iconis “Be More Chill Part 2,” by Joe Iconis, showcases the strained and controlling relationship that Jeremy Heere has with his Squip, a nanosized super computer in his brain that is supposed to make Jeremy cool. The Squip represents Lady Macbeth, and Jeremy is Macbeth. When the Squip tells Jeremy, “you can’t just listen. You have to obey,” it is reminiscent of Lady Macbeth coercing Macbeth into killing Duncan; Lady Macbeth realizes she has to “corrupt”…
Isolation is a feeling that is brought forth in every human being. It makes no difference whether you are tall, short, fit, chubby, smart, or dumb isolation is a feeling that is inevitable. The void of thinking one is alone and that nobody on this vast planet has the slightest idea of what you are feeling. That empty emotion of isolation, can be worse than death itself. Throughout life, no matter how fortunate you are being deprived of friendships strips you from what makes life have a purpose.…
Mississippi State University Equality of Life: A Response to Animal Liberation Over time, the killing of animals for the better of the human race has become routine and typical. Whether these killings be for sport, for food, or for scientific research, we as a society have become numb to the inhumane treatment of nonhuman mammals. If today’s society is in unanimous support for the equal treatment of men and women and all different races, then it should be unacceptable to exploit nonhuman life…
What is a leader? What is a boss? This paper will be constructed of arguments supported by evidence and reasons on what “The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents” defines a leader as. Many people have their own idea of what a leader is but in this paper you will grow in a better understanding of all the aspects of what a leader is. According to the book, Darktan demonstrated that a leader doesn’t leave a man behind. Being a leader can be very difficult at times, you have to make hard…
Despite Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud’s individualistic ideas and definitions of religion, they obtain a common understanding regarding wishful thinking of an afterlife. However, the way they interpret the afterlife is different. Karl Marx argued that the idea of an afterlife is able to dull the pain of reality; he uses religion to shed some light on how bad living life truly is. On the other hand, Freud believes that all religious believes are just illusions and wishful thinking is the ultimate…
popularity in the world of philosophy as a normative theory and has been stirring up a lot of debate amongst people from all walks of life. Normative theories of ethics work by presenting one key principle as the main criterion on the basis of which a human being's actions are judged to be good or bad. That limits its overall view because it is never that easy to distinguish between the two in a world where all lines are slowly blurring. The principle itself can be unstable and unreliable, which…
In “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, John “The Savage” is the character who fought the most for individuality. Because he grew up in a savage lifestyle, he is horrified by the inhumane society of the World State. After he realizes how disturbing the World State society actually is, he fights against it. John wants to live a real life, instead of one taken over by soma-dependent happiness. He voices his desire to Mustapha Mond when he says, “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry,…
birds, and a monkey that all point to animals potentially having much greater intelligence and capacity to feel than we often give them credit for. He also speaks about various movements in support of animal rights and advocated greater empathy from humans to animals.(Rifkin 34-35) Rifkin's focus on animal empathy seems entirely detached from the reality of the situation; his piece fails to consider the socioeconomic implications of extended animal rights. The most immediate and noticeable…
rats, the positives of this overshadow the negatives because of how humans and other animals were…