Essays on Philosophy of Life

Confucianism is an ancient philosophy about kindness and respect which is based on the teachings of Kung Fuzi He is also known as Confucius. Confucianism is not religion, but philosophy about how to live life, therefore, Confucius was also not God or supreme being with...

In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche presents an unorthodox argument concerning the natural state of humankind and the means of its ultimate decline. Nietzsche claims that individuals do not allow their own natural impulses and desires to guide them, but they rather observe the...

Nietzsche’s goal is to live life through love of truth, humanity and the earth. To me, this argument is profoundly convincing however, I think that this goal is shared at the core of the religions he has chosen to criticise. In this essay I would...

In Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals essays, he made the claim that nihilism is the fact that we are “weary of man” in modern life. In this essay, I will attempt to justify his claims that modern ways of social and individual life, moral values and...

Dance is an influential form of art that varies in style, presentation, and ties groups of people together. Dance consistently relays a message to its audience regardless of its type or category. One significant figure who believed that dance had a message even if one...

The role of Philosophy in education is deeply rooted and the two fields are inextricably intertwined. Many a philosophers have created arguments to support the role philosophy has to play in establishing the process of education and pedagogy. Education is present in all cultures and...

What comes up to your mind when you hear the word Avant-Garde? Avant-garde is basically a French term, meaning in English modern art which started in the beginning of 1850s. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, it seemed with reference to art in France...

To compare and contrast the two sociological theories, structural functionalism and conflict theory developed separately by two of the greatest minds to have worked in sociology, Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx. I will start by looking at the men themselves and how their theories applied...

It has been argued that the mind operates similar to the inner workings of a machine; a system that functions according to certain rules that specify outputs for various inputs. Generalizing this idea of what makes something a particular mental state is not based on...

Significant contributions to the field of American academic psychology appeared nearing the end of the nineteenth century transitioning into the next. In academia, psychology was beginning to be established as its’ own discipline. Edward Titchener, focused on mental structures at Cornell University creating the ideology...