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With Election Day approaching, it is worth exploring essential principles that everyone must consider when casting their vote. Solidarity is one such principle. Many assume in theory that humans owe support to each other simply due to shared humanity. While it is difficult to practice this ideal, the sense of solidarity still exists among us.
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“All men by nature desire to know.” These words begin Aristotle’s “Metaphysics,” one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy, and describe something essential about our human nature. Our minds desire to know because we need to survive, and knowledge does play a role in survival, but our minds also desire to
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One question that always baffled me in the history of ethics was the rejection of inherent final cause or purpose, also known as teleology. If you have a long and productive discussion with anyone about a disagreement in ethics, it will likely boil down to this principle. Historically, humans took for granted the premise that
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It is still an unfortunate assumption that science has usurped philosophy as a discipline, leaving the latter with no real consequence in the world. Even those who pay some respect to philosophy often consider it as knowledge existing in the purely subjective realm, while physical sciences (biology, chemistry, etc.) are what make real changes in
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