Essays on Human Nature

Beckett’s writing elaborates hope, sufferings, death. Beckett expressed three main concerns in waiting for Godot those are relationships, human nature and sufferings. Life is not a bed of roses. Human beings have to face all the difficulties and sufferings of life. In order to survive...

In our daily behaviors we usually limit the actions. Lacking some control of reality, we usually talk about relativism. Everything is relative, we affirm except for what is absolute. They say that any thesis that denies the possibility of the existence of a universal and...

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...