Thomas Hobbes, also known as The Monster of Malmesbury for being an atheist and making God so mad that he caused the great fire of London 1666, also had a bleak, some may say realistic, view of human nature. In his view, humans have impulses, freedom, and self-preservation. This means…

*Trigger warning: This movie is about a real-life suicide, please do not read if you are sensitive to this topic. Also, this essay has spoilers, if you did not see the movie, and want to experience it without spoilers, please go watch it before reading. The movie 14 Hours is…

Rawl’s Principles of Justice Explained. John Rawls is a famous American philosopher who is well known for his book A Theory of Justice. Rawls published this book in 1971 and spent the rest of his life answering objections, and reviewing his theory, until his death in 2002. In this article…

The Doll Test was an experiment used in the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court case that ended segregation. Before this decision the accepted mantra was “separate but equal”, the supreme court decided that separation and inequality went hand in hand and therefore it was unconstitutional. The Doll Test…

Abortion is often a topic of both philosophical and legal debate. The two positions in the public sphere are pro-life and pro-choice. …

The Trolley Problem has become a part of popular culture, it is featured in the NBC show The Good Place, there are many comical variations of it in an article from The New Yorker, and there are countless memes on the topic. In this piece, I will address a couple…

Imagine a serial killer, say, Ted Bundy, he is charming, fit, good looking, some say attractive. People trusted him, so much so that he was able to convince many victims to go along with him wherever he wanted to take them. Many of Ted Bundy’s traits could be reasonably called…

The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment in Ethics that was first created by philosopher Philippa Foot and then later rehashed and developed by philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson. In this piece, I will try to convey how these two philosophers presented the problem. …

In 1930, John Maynard Keynes, who was considered the world’s foremost economist of his own time, published an essay with the title “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. In this essay, Keynes speaks of a world to come, 100 years from the date that the essay was published, where prosperity would…