Essays on Being Human

Philosophy and the Walking Dead: The Rules of “The Walking Dead”

AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is the story of a particular group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse, led by Rick Grimes, which has become one of the most popular shows on television. It was adapted for television from the comic books of the same title written by Robert Kirkman (Yuen, 2016). The show asks many questions within the story regarding life and death, what it means to be alive and what does it means to be human? It presents ethical conundrums and creates the basis for philosophical debate. There are priorities in the apocalyptic world, food, water, shelter, ...

The construct of free will was studied and it was determined that the theory of undefined free will has conventionally been rejected and/or neglected in the theory of counseling and in the field of psychology; however, in the moral arena, the freedom of self-determinism and freedom of indeterminate free will are mutually exclusive concepts. From another perspective, indeterminate free will can also be perceived to be unidirectional, acting in the direction of self-violating, negative behavior, leading to immoral behavior (Wilks & Ratheal, 2011). Whenever an individual becomes self-absorbed, there is not consideration for anyone else even if that self-absorbed individual ...

Do we have a duty to intervene in conflicts around the world? Why or why not? Use Kant/vices to answer this question. Kant argues that human being has the capability of knowing what it right as well as the capability of willing to do it (Kant 149). Conflict around the world is not a good thing; however, intervening to stop is a good deed. As such, as a human being, we feel the urge to do what is right, which is to stop it. Additionally, stopping the conflict does not yield pleasure to the person doing it; nonetheless, they ...

Introduction

Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation is a story of a young woman explaining her endeavors after migrating to Canada with her family at the age of 13. She then moves to the United States and later immigrates to London. Lost in Translation by Nicola Mones is a story of a young American woman who tries to fit in China as a translator. In Lost In Translation by Eva Hoffman and Lost In Translation by Nicole Mones, both Hoffman and Mones successfully cultivate our appreciation for cultural differences by exposing the reader to foreign languages and terms, by challenging ...