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73What Makes a Good Play?
Actors tend to focus on their characters, forgetting that the role is just one part of a whole play. Even the best actors cannot overcome a badly written play. But what makes a good play? It’s important to know this because the play is the actor’s home. It should be built on a firm foundation of action.
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66The True Role of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
This essay will provide an argument and evidence for the proposition that Plato’s famous allegory of the cave plays multiple roles and can be understood as a reference to Plato’s theory of the forms, as a metaphor for the process an intellectual...
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74Human Evil in Greek Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle
For Plato, evil is the symptom of a metaphysical revolt against the conditions of one's creation. Humans are quite elevated in whom evil must be fixable in some way. If we should design our social order in a way which is not rendering us susceptible to evil, we might overcome it. For Aristotle, evil is a mundane challenge of organizing our relatively messed-up natures. People are composed of mind and flesh in whom evil occurs naturally.
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77Absolutism versus Relativism - The Ethics of Abortion
Academic evaluation of absolutist and relativist theories as they relate to the application of abortion as an issue. Philosophy and Ethics exam students will benefit from this, alongside anyone wanting to understand how culture has changed from Divine Law to Relativism in the UK and USA.
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74History of Botany: Part 1, from the Ancient Greece until the European Renaissance
The earliest classifications of plants were primarily utilitarian classifications: that is, they included mostly medicinal or other useful plants. Therefore, they were limited to human experience and to their importance in ancient human societies.
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71Natural Science Supports God's Existence
"While intelligent design skeptics may claim there is no evidence of God, the actual scientific evidence for God's existence is overwhelming, scientifically answering the question, does God exist" (Dutko, 2008)? There are many scientists who feel...
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52"Human Happiness" by Phineas Upham
Phineas Upham uses a close reading of Aristotle’s thoughts on human happiness to draw conclusions about the function of descriptions and classifications. Amartya Sen, in Inequality Reexamined, made the distinction between capabilities and...
64Living Well from a Perspective of an Ancient Philosopher and a Modern Song
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.” ~ Aristotle The journey we each embark upon is...
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63A Bit on Aristotle
I am reading the Introduction to Political Philosophy by William Ebenstein. I have schizophrenia and the voices have this energy that is somehow placated when I write. When I write the voices listen to me. I am in the chapter on Aristotle who was a...
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