The Reconstruction of Plato’s Philosophy Plato, the student to Socrates, and the teacher to Aristotle, has clear philosophy on life. He borrows on the teachings of Socrates. The article focuses on the foundations’ of Plato’s philosophy. They engage metaphysics, the theory of forms, the soul, and epistemology. Additionally, the article discusses Plato under the ethics, politics, and art. Plato’s philosophy entails rhetoric, which is a […]

The Problem of Evil Everyday our news bulletins are filled with stories of deadly diseases, traffic accidents, bullying, knife crime and wars and this raises the question on why God allows all these events to take place if indeed He exists. The issue of suffering is so real because every individual has at one point or another undergone through some type of suffering such as […]

The Design Argument for God’s Existence Over the years, God’s existence has become the most debated issue and the fact that science cannot be used to prove this subject implies that the debate might go on for a very long time. Many logical theories have been produced by philosophers and while some of them could be easy to believe, these theories are just considered to […]

Capital Punishment According to the position of ethics and morality, capital punishment is entirely unjustified. I support the idea that “ethical questions surrounding physician participation in executions cannot be easily separated from more general questions about the morality of capital punishment” (Kadlac 2014). When we talk about capital punishment, we are referring to the death penalty or execution, lethal injection, or physician participation that can […]

Punishment and the Death Penalty “Capital punishment,” also referred to as “death penalty” involves having to execute offenders by sentencing them to death upon conviction by court of law of criminal offenses (Black). “Capital punishment” is different from extrajudicial executions done minus any lawful procedures. The term “death penalty” is at times used instead of “capital punishment” although once it has been ruled it does […]

Spiritual Reality and Moral Truths People view and perceive things differently due to personal differences and also differences in their religious beliefs. They tend to judge one another based on their mannerism of doing things, the cultural patterns they belong to, including the mode of dressings, among other things. For instance, in the picture above, the two women have a totally different opinion on one […]

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Plato is one of the greatest thinker and philosopher of all time, he came up with a classical philosophical thought aimed at probing our intuitions about epistemology (Finnigan et al., 2019). In his experiment, he depicts a group of prisoners restrained in a cave, such that they cannot move and can only see shadows of people and objects reflected by […]

How Do We Discover The Meaning of Life? Various ancient figures in field of philosophy have given a riposte to the query regarding what if something makes life significant, but they have typically not placed in these terms. For instance, Aristotle, regarding the human function, Kant about the highest good and Aquinas concerning the beatific vision. Indeed, all these concepts have some bearing of morality […]

Aristotle and Hobbes views on the purpose of life Both Aristotle and Hobbes were philosophers who developed theories using the concept of social justice. These two great thinkers tried to seek answers to most of the political, social justice, moral virtues, and ethical issues in society. They tried to prove that moral virtues and social justice are linked to the worth of human life and […]

The Relevance of Practices of Affirmative Action The practices of Affirmative Action in the US call for justice for minorities in public institutions establishments such as education, political offices, and national security. Elizabeth Anderson provides models for States to realize Affirmative Action that include the compensatory, diversity, discrimination, and integration perspectives. The models help understand the arguments that make up Affirmative Action in the US. […]