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For instance, aesthetic relativism is one of the three main topics I can sympathize with because I don’t believe that there is one true definition of what beauty is. The ideas of beauty differs from person to person, whether it is human beauty, art, or anything in general. By asking this question, it makes me analyze what other branches of relativism I’m sympathetic towards, and how this will effect my overarching conclusion of the existence of one answer. Aesthetics are something…

Just like the atomists, they believe in nothing but atoms and the void. Because of this, death is inconsequential. Humans only consist of atoms and the void, and the only difference between a living human and a dead one is their arrangement of atoms. Since a person is only atoms, and humans don’t feel any stress, pain, or displeasure with non-existence before they are born, it follows that they must continue to feel this way after they die. Epicureans…

How do you think of free? Do you think to be free is only means to get out of one’s control and keep yourself free or is to use your hands to be respect and enhance the freedom of others? Before I finish reading the book “Looking for Alibrandi”, I may believe that get out of one’s control is the meaning of to be free. However, when I finish reading the book, I started wondering, living in a way of respects and enhances the freedom of others is the truly meaning of “to be free”. Therefore, I…

The New Temple Do humans idolize tangible objects? It is safe to say that no one in today’s society thinks of themselves as materialistic person. The shocking reality is that everyone in Capitalist societies idolizes material things; unconsciously material possessions have become the god that consumers idolize. Corporations are responsible for this because they offer tangible objects that appear to be essential to obtain happiness and fulfillment. Shopping Centers have become the new temple…

not hard to believe that people care more about themselves and their situations than that of other people. In “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace and The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy, both address awareness and the importance of it. Although human beings are self-serving creatures, they need to have the ability to pay attention to and help one another. In today’s society, being aware and acknowledging people and situations can lead to a greater understanding of the world around, but it is…

illustrates the nature of the human psyche through the idolized tool of religion. Although Freud’s view towards religion appears to be overwhelmingly negative, slight positive benefits of religion can be seen through his explanations of religious symbolism. Freud illustrates the benefits of religion as a way to cope with the inevitable pulls of the id, while demonstrating the lack of intellectual basis behind religion, and the illusion religion represents as a tool from which human beings can…

After his experiment erupted, Milgram’s reputation crumbled. He was no longer known as an extraordinary scientist; but instead as an immoral, and corrupt human being, and in effect, he left Yale for Harvard. Milgram lived a happy life in Cambridge for four years, however, he eventually left because of discrimination in the work place. With his reputation gone, Milgram had to continue his studies at the Graduate…

Introduction: The seraphic, illuminating Pearl S. Buck stimulates our moral compass and arouses compunction with the following quote: “Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.” The nescient who dive into the murky, precarious waters of euthanasia transgress all concepts of morality and ethics, thereby devastating mankind’s longevity that a plethora of medical professionals have arduously crafted. For…

In the story Cain: A Mystery by Lord Bryon, Bryon creates the character Cain as a suffering eldest brother of Abel and son of Adam and Eve with the many complications of his own thoughts. This character is a key aspect of the author’s purpose. The author wants the readers to understand that your own thoughts impact the world around you when put into action. Your world, meaning not only yourself, but others and your environment. Within this action, your own world can be weakened or strengthened.…

In Crusaders and Pragmatists, Stoessinger mainly compares and contrasts two schools of thought in American foreign policy: the crusader and the pragmatist. Stoessinger defines a crusader as someone “whose hallmark is a missionary zeal to make the world better, but often manages to leave it in worse shape than before” due to their undying belief in their ideas while a pragmatist “refuses to get locked into a losing policy, changing directions without inflicting damage to his self-esteem” and is…