Essays on Human Nature

One of many medieval writers using the motif of transformation in their works is Marie de France. In one of her lais, Bisclavret, she explores the idea of a man turning into a wolf and the aftermath of his wife finding out about his true...

Many people have a misunderstanding of what gossip is. They believe it is when you talk bad about someone that isn’t in the conversation. Gossip has many definitions and again it all just comes down to how you would like to interpret it. According to...

Throughout history, society has been attempting to explain several key questions: what are morals? What is considered moral? And where do/did morals come from? One of the theories and philosophies that has been proposed to answer these essential questions is the Natural Law Theory (NLT)....

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a philosopher in the 18th century, theorized that there are two states of man: the natural state or half, and the citizen or civil half. Rousseau believed our natural state is our better state, we are better off in a state of nature...

English philosophers Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704) have both made large contributions to develop the political thoughts of society. Before we dive into each of their ideas, we need to be aware of the contexts from which they arose. Their vastly different individual...

Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are two of the most recognized 17th and 18th century, Western canon political philosophers. In Hobbes’s seminal work, Leviathan, he lays out his piece by piece conception of the world whereby man living in constant fear can escape the state...

In “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez mirrors the way humans tend to act in real life situations with how the townspeople, Pelayo, and his wife acted towards the angel. It also shows that Marquez has a negative view on human...