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. […]

Bell Hook: Black Women Sexuality, Media Representation and Popular culture Bell Hook’s exposed how society used to ignore black females sexuality as popular culture and his article argued against the idea that femininity and womanness are totally personified by whiteness. Most of Hook’s context tried to display how black females would be identified in ‘civilized Europe’ as important people, unlike in the past where they […]

Systematic Racism in Music Popular Culture The music sector happens to be one of the most significant industries in the world, whereby it has gradually evolved from phonograph records and Walkmans to the current instant online streaming platforms. Currently, as a popular culture, music is consumed by numerous individuals across the world with no limitations to time and geographical location. Music was used to “tell […]

Djent Music Analysis Music conveys an approach of articulating various emotions, including feelings through varying sounds, rhythms, words, as well as instrumentation. Generally, music is essential to individuals whereby it can have a substantial effect on their moods and feelings. For instance, rock music can calm some individuals when they are upset or angry or can assist some individuals in releasing their aggression. Music impacts […]

Violin and Persian Music The impact of the violin on Iranian classical music between 1950 and 1979 is covered in the lecture titled ‘The influence of violin 1950 – 1979 Iran’. Alfred Lemaire, who wrote the country’s first anthem and was the country’s first classical music professor, is credited with starting the history. Other well-known individuals are A.N. Vaziree, who studied Western music in Paris […]

The Kamancheh and Barbat Instruments Interestingly, two Persian words are combined to create the native Persian fiddle Kamancheh: kaman, which means bow, and –che(h), meaning little (Khosroshahi et al., 64).  Kamancheh is a traditional instrument that has a wooden, bowl-shaped resonator covered in a stretched membrane, making it appear similar to a spike fiddle. The four strings on the instrument’s neck are played with a […]