Philosophy

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father and mother divorced shortly after ...

On October 5, 2006, the New York Times Book Review presented a discussion between Michael J Sandel and Thomas Nagel based upon Nagel’s review ...

To what extent can an individual exist as a pure individual? This question, which upon first through may seem redundant, is central to the ...

Plato’s Apology was written around 360 B.C. Apology is a pivotal text dealing with the trial of Socrates because of the details covered about ...

The Meno, like many of Plato’s other dialogues, examines the nature of “virtue” from various angles without arriving at any definitive definition. In the ...

John Harris proposed that in the (largely hypothetical) situation of two people needing transplant organs or they will die, it would be acceptable by ...

Humanity, in the simplest of terms, is the state or condition of being human. This basic definition, as convenient as it may be, lacks ...

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is an important Rationalist (Rationalists were philosophers who used reason as the basis for their philosophical theories) philosopher from the fifteenth ...

Through the tale of Jia Yu-cun, we are brought face-to-face with a kind of justice that often offends the vast majority of people. Instead ...

Judy Rebick wanted to shed light on the problem of overwork in Canadian culture.  The paper starts by stating her qualifications to speak on ...