Even on an intuitive level, people often express the problem of the "egocentric predicament" or the fact that we are limited in our perceptions as to what we personally think and feel and experience. Our ability to obtain objective knowledge is limited by our biases and our perceptions. Qu...

Immanuel Kant bases ethics on the autonomy of good will. Kant attempted to figure out the way we act according to our ability for free choice. Autonomy is any act that is done because of our own free choice. Kant views ethics as an intrinsic good rather than and an instrumental good, or as a good...

Every culture ever known has operated under a system of values. Many varied on exact principles, but most applied the idea of Natural Law. Or, as C.S. Lewis would refer to it in his Abolition of Man, the Tao. In this particular book Lewis discusses the implications that would follow could man overc...

Realizing Imperfection Everything we perceive to be reality is physical and within the barriers of the physical realm, therefore, everything is explainable or describable and governed by physical laws. In the past, humans have been able to answer questions and solve problems that once appeared to...

The Matrix Reality Bytes: A journey through perceptions of reality in 'The Matrix' and the technological world. The idea for this dissertation arose from the culmination of a number of thoughts that have interested me for some time. The question of 'reality' has always intrigu...