"Conscience created or innate" To what extent do you think you are dictated by your surroundings and your up-bringing? Do you claim your opinions to be your own? Do you trust your logic and your conscience? These are questions that are seldom asked by ourselves or by others. In fac...

DO WE NEED TO LEARN TO THINK SCIENTIFICALLY IN ORDER TO FIND THE TRUTH? What is truth? A question that has undoubtedly endured many hundreds of years of ponderment? So whom am I to ask the question in face of the minds that have gone before me, and even if I decide that the conclusion that I ...

"Men can fly through the air like birds, and swim through the seas like fish. When will we walk the earth as brothers and sisters?" -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For centuries, the human race has been divided by their differences. Men are killed because they look differently or believe different t...

The way Descartes chose to write this piece literature captivated me. Descartes was a very intelligent man who wanted to make sense of the world he lived in. The format he used was unusual. It seems to me that he may have used this format, which is a replication of the book of Genesis in t...

Sophie's World Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder, is a fantasy novel that explores the history of philosophy. It takes place in Norway in the 1990's. Some of the themes in the book are philosophy and free will. Dreams in the book often foreshadow events that occur later. Sophie is ...

Willa Cather vs. Sherwood Anderson The authors Willa Cather and Sherwood Anderson experience several similarities and differences in their stories. By approaching a common theme in their writings, the reader can easily depict the authors' styles. Sherwood Anderson's troublesome char...

Ideas of the Parthenon The Greek people of the 5th century BC created a culture that was deeply rooted in philosophy and the arts. Their endless search for their place in the grand scheme of the universe and in nature around them influenced everything in their lives especially their love of th...

"Does Arjuna Have A Free Choice?" Arjuna is one of the two main characters in the classic Hindu religious text, the Bhagavadgita, (or just Gita). The text takes the form of a dialogue between Arjuna, a warrior prince and Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu who is an aspect of the Sup...

In "Walking," Thoreau uses wild and religious references to illustrate his thoughts about true nature. Thoreau compares the toxic city culture to pure nature through these citations. The writing clarifies nature as a place of study, where people's true feelings emerge. Lastly, Thoreau elucidate...

Do you remember the last time you felt rediscovery in your mind? And what did the scene look like? I can always find my new self through somebody and events. In the way I dealt with different people and things, I found I had learnt a lot and was standing on a new stage of life. I think this can ...

Significant experiences are moments in life that create change not only in one's present period of life, but also dramatically alter one's view of the surrounding and forthcoming events. The impacts of such experiences are the opening of new doors in life, the realization of possibilities one wo...

Descartes' Method of Doubt "I think, therefore I am" (32) is the principle in which Descartes uses to build any foundation for the ideas in his meditations. The human being is in essence a thinking thing in which the mind has the ability to deceive a person. He may in his youth hav...

Life for children without a secure home to live in is a rough and unstable way of living, especially when growing into maturity. The novel and film, "The Catcher in the Rye" and "The Adventures of Huck Finn" show this lack of protection, as well as the maturity levels that affect...

Subliminal Messages in Advertising Advertising has been part of the American economy for some time. Over that time advertising has grown significantly from a single page ad with one black and white photo to today's million dollar multi-media campaigns, including TV and magazine adds designe...

The Young Philosophers Tale As you can very well see, I am young and inexperienced in philosophy. I have heard the teachers and read the books, But lack wisdom and profound outlooks. For this reason my story, which I hope will please, Is not drawn from Aristotle or Sophocles, But from p...

Repression is the forced storage into the unconscious of experiences that are so severe you don't have emotions towards them. Everything you experience or want to experience stays with you in your unconscious mind. Bad experiences are pushed down into the unconscious instead of naturally fallin...

Subliminal Messages in Advertising Advertising has been part of the American economy for some time. Over that time advertising has grown significantly from a single page ad with one black and white photo to today's million dollar multi-media campaigns, including TV and magazine adds designe...

Jazz Paper The Relationship of Dorcas and Felice In the novel Jazz, written by Toni Morrison, the relationships formed among the characters highlight the idiosyncrasies of the characters themselves. Morrison created Felice in the novel to portray the negative side Dorcas to the reader an...

The Dragon Can't Dance Often when one comes to the realization of delusion in the understanding of an event, anger at defeat kicks in. In this particular passage from The Dragon Can't Dance, Lovelace manages to provoke in his readers a sense of loss concerning one's root...

Fulcrum Celestial sat with about two-dozen of her best friends. She was dressed head to toe in the latest gear. Her shoes were black patent boots with a slight heel and glistened silver in the bright artificial light. Her silver pants had a slight flare to them, flowing around her boots and ...

In order to properly critique the quote "Reason is the slave of the passions", by renowned philosopher David Hume, we must first examine the definitions of what we perceive as reason, slaves, and passions, and why we perceive them as such. Each term takes on an automatic, assumed quality by most ...

Our ancestors first sought to understand themselves and their surroundings through the invention of myths and the worshipping of gods. The Greeks, for example, created gods like Athena and Aries to explain the concept of wisdom and war respectively. I would like to think, contrary to common thought...

Thoughts on the Concept of "Forgiveness" and the Power of Your Subconscious Mind Although the topic of 'forgiveness' is not common in everyday conversation or perhaps in our conscious everyday thoughts, the subject matter is worth considering on different levels; an effort, whi...

Page 1 Plato is one of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time. Writing several books, pertaining to many different topics. He learned his skill from the father of modern philosophy and learned it well. Effecting countless minds of his time, and many more extending all the w...

Personal Identity Philosophers have argued about what it is that makes us who we are for a very long time. What is it that sets us apart not only from other species, but also from each other as individuals? There are many ways to approach this issue, which can be first separated into two cate...