The Conflict between Russia and Ukraine Diplomacy and Negotiation Effectiveness: Diplomatic effort and negotiation offer a vital route of sharing ideas and policies and a platform for communication and understanding, leading to compromise. They lay out their dissatisfaction on diplomatic platforms, clear off misunderstandings, and look for everyday shared ground. Similarly, this approach provides space for the engagement of experienced negotiators who ensure both parties’ […]

The Call to “Defund the Police” George Floyd, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile are some of the noteworthy individuals, among the innumerable black people who have had a fatal encounter with the police. Several cases of the people of color being murdered by the police have led most individuals to feel that policing in the US serves to terrorize the blacks […]

The Trump Tax Law in the US The Trump Tax Bill passed into law up and remains relevant up to 2025 is disadvantageous to the poor in the US and propagates income inequality. The rich are the top earners through monetary gains of about 20% of the aggregate cuts, despite the few numbers. Consequently, the nation is at risk of inequality problems that affect not […]

Philosophy in Everyday Life Concept 1: Determinism Determinism is the view that all events in the universe, including human actions and choices, are inevitable and necessary outcomes of previous causes following natural laws. I got interested is describing this concept in the popular TV show “Lost”, where some characters adamantly believe that their lives unfold according to a predetermined destiny that is impossible to change. […]

Allegory of The Cave According to Plato, human beings experience reality at two different levels, one consist of unchanging eternal truths and the other consist of constantly changing particulars depending on the availability to our senses. Therefore, the Allegory of the Cave can symbolically illustrate how people tend to believe in an illusion and accept it as reality. In his urgument he describes a group […]

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 […]