Essays on Philosophy

This book comprises of a series of lectures on natural theology delivered by William James at the University of Edinburgh in 1901/1902. James sets out to analyze certain varieties of religious experience with an aim to discover their value for this life as an empirical...

In the sense of ethical morality, values signify the importance of an object or action, based on what you perceive as morally correct. One’s values can be carved out before them by their parents, who ingrain rules by shaping their lives during childhood. Societal and...

There are many personal values that are important to me. However, there are five that stand out above the rest. They are Honesty, Open-Mindedness, Optimism, Motivation, and Love. The purpose of this essay is to explain why each are important to me and compare/ contrast...

The value of a human life is different for many people. For me, I believe that every human life is worth something, whether you think it is a certain amount of money or just being able to live how you want to. Depending on how...

The “self” of every human being is a construct of numerous elements, both external and as well as internal. A person often finds difficult on what is the idea of self should be. Neil (2005) defines the self as an overarching idea about who we...

Plato’s cave story is a dialogue about perception and people rejecting reality due to ignorance. To demonstrate it, there exists a cave with people bound and tied in such a way that they are able to look only in one direction, towards a wall in...

The great leader of the United Kingdom in 1945, Winston Churchill, was a British politician of the conservative, then liberal party, and leader during World War II. Churchill was born into a rich aristocratic family, giving him an education, but he did not achieve good...

My willpower challenge is, I want to get out of my comfort zone. I have never attempted anything like this until now. I was diagnosed with high functioning anxiety when I was fourteen years old since then I have never done anything out of my...

Self-control and willpower are difficult to achieve without being taught or learning the hard way. So, we are going to learn about developing self-control & experiments that test willpower. The brain’s frontal lobe manages attention and develops from birth onward into our 20s. It’s responsible...

Why is it so important to have better control over willpower in our lives you might wonder? There are many reasons why you would want to learn to enjoy the benefits of your willpower. This essay will review some concrete examples people might encounter in...