Philosophy of life

a man practicing philosophy and becoming a philosopher; an individual that realizes the ignorance shown by his peers and can now understand all that existence holds. An important piece of this experience is the man’s introduction to complete brightness, now that he beholds a world under sunlight. The sun in the Allegory of the Cave is representative of the absolute Truth or Good that a philosopher seeks after. When the source of Truth and Good shines its light on the man’s life, everything is…

The philosophies of Stoicism and Skepticism offer differing ideals that one could almost consider being on opposite ends of the spectrum, yet both believe their way of life leads them to the success and truth humans are after. But which one offers the most logical position? Epictetus presents his thought of Stoicism in The Encheiridion, where he offers advice on how to obtain happiness. David Hume rejects the idea of Stoicism in his essay “The Skeptic”. In the article Hume highlights some of the…

The purpose of education, education philosophy, and motivation are all key components to being successful in the classroom. Everybody has heard the phrase, education is the key to success. Education has so many purpose some obvious and some are less. Education is used to teach both creative and analytical thinking, it is used to help spark curiosity and build a child imagination. Education is not a short time (k-12) experience but should be continuous…

Nihilism: Don’t Embrace Nietzsche’s Nothingness “Life itself is essential assimilation, injury, violation of the foreign and the weaker, suppression, hardness, the forcing of One’s own forms upon something else, ingestion and—at least in its mildest form—exploitation.” -Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil The nihilism analysis has been prevalent position over the past few years. Its anticipated purpose is to demand questions about the norms made in a philosophical debate. These contain the…

Virtue ethics says that emphasizes the role of a character and virtue in moral philosophy rather be doing just one duty or acting in order by bringing about the consequences. The virtue ethicist is likely to give some kind of advice: "Act as a virtuous person would act in your situation."(Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, n.d) A virtuous person is any person that is kind across many situations over a lifetime because that is the character and not…

awful.” This quote extracted from Waiting for Godot, an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett that premiered on 5 January 1953, holds the essence of absurdist theatre and what its playwrights seek to express- the inescapable meaningless and futility of life. The origins of absurdist theatre are commonly linked to the avant-garde experimentations of the 19th century, but there has been speculation that there were traces of absurdist theatre in works of Old Comedy in Greek theatre, especially the…

The values in a person’s life often result in a difficulty to make a decision in a time of conflict. In the two texts, “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell and “The Guest” by Albert Camus, it can be seen that the two protagonists struggle in making a decision due to their values. A personal reflective of myself can also display that I have also dealt with, where my values interfere with a conflict that I was facing. The values in conflict we face as an individual influences us to make a…

the most part, here comes the hard part. Life after high school has always made me anxious and now that I’m graduating in a few days I'm really starting to worry. School has always been relatively easy to me so the thought of having to take college classes and study doesn't even phase me. But then I remember what college is and what it entails and I get anxious all over again. Recently I've been stressed out and concerned with what my exact path in life is. Much like Rosencrantz and…

Freedom When one considers freedom, he or she may think of the ability to choose what to do and when to do it. In the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, freedom is one issue the main character, Alex, has to deal with. In the novel, it states, “If lewdies are good that is because they like it…” (Burgess, Clockwork 40). This points to the idea that if people are good, they are choosing to be such due to a desire to do the right thing. If people do not have the option to choose, they are…

originally not meant to be on Christina’s album because of how personal it was, however, she decided to not only add the song to the album, but to make it a leading single. “human” is an extremely thought out and well written song describing parts of life everyone goes through at various times. Furthermore, during this analysis I will be using the literary elements of symbolism, tone, and conflict and the critical strategy of reader’s response to communicate my thoughts. The lyrics to “human”…