1. Primary Singular Evaluations We often come across the view that to judge a thing as good or beautiful is merely to give expression to one's own personal attitude towards things in general; or, in other words, that evaluations of moral and esthetic values are conditioned only subjectively, as oppo...

Nietzsche's unpublished essay "On Truth and Lies in an Unmoral Sense" was regarded by some scholars as a keystone in his thought. He rejects the idea of universal constants, and claims that what we call "truth" is only "a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms. His view is not...

Nietzsche "God Is Dead" Out of all the things I could have chosen to write about, for some reason "Twilight of the Idol's' caught my eye It was kind of a catchy title, and it was the last thing that Nietzsche wrote that had any merit before he went ...

ompare Mill and Kant's ethical theories; which makes a better societal order? John Stuart Mill (1808-73) believed in an ethical theory known as utilitarianism. There are many formulation of this theory. One such is, "Everyone should act in such a...

Of all his writings, this novel shows Swift's merits of his mind. His extraordinary queft of expression. It is written in a very strange language. It is understandable nowadays, but not then. This novel shows the tendency of the XVIIIth century to see truth in relative terms. Is this Swift's opinion...

Every day we face countless choices that involve doing the right thing; however, the right thing to do isn't always the easiest thing to do. Each of these choices involves thousands of messages whirling inside our brain. In a split second our minds review the facts, explore our feelings, study cons...