Today, I will be talking about Fathers–and the importance of having a Father. I will use Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Let us first start with the ancient Greek text...

In section fifteen of A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume provides rules for causes and effects (1.3.15). I want to find out the impact of these rules on Hume’s attitude in section fifteen. Hume...

Leibniz’s Marble Block Against Universal Assent G.W. Leibniz’s example of a marble block is essential because it challenges John Locke’s concept of universal assent. Leibniz argues that the truth ...

The Defects of Descartes Soul: Whether it is Manifestly Impossible to Derive God From Defects Descartes believes that the perfection of worldly nature is derived from his soul. Nevertheless, Desca...

Addiction: What are you supposed to do if you’re someone like me? I don’t have a support system I feel comfortable falling back onto. I have my friends and family who are there for me, but I can’t...

I do not know why—why I am here. I feel like a false hope. But I do not know if I am a false prophet. My goal was to inspire those who did not believe. But belief is not enough. The soul requires f...

“There was a lamp in there—light, don’t you know—and outside it was so beastly, beastly dark. I went no more near the remarkable man…The voice was gone. What else had been there? But I am of course...

Descartes’s Path of Enlightenment: Why Nothingness Implies the Existence of Something Emptiness is not the same as nothingness. Descartes believes that one cannot derive something from nothing wit...

The Experience of Loneliness While Living in Society: Mars in the Hospital I remember being in the hospital. My blood was drained into a filtration device as I spent hours watching movies. The M...

Tonight, she is in my dreams. Yet I do not recognize her face. Her eyes stare through mine—as if I were imaginary. Her soft voice echoes, but I cannot remember what she says. Around me are the shad...