Essays on Botton

Life is a journey that meanders as one grows old with all the experiences. With time and understanding, people come to ascertain their respective goals in life that work as a guiding force for them. Every person should know where to reach by the end of the journey as a journey without any knowledge of the destination would be nothing but meaningless. The vision of life works as the driving force as it guides the individual to go ahead braving all the odds that come in his or her way. In my own case, I gave it quite a ...

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The attempt of looking for the good in life is an ongoing process and it is not something that can be pursued at an instant. Many people will pursue several things to attain the ‘good life’; I look at attaining wealth, the kind that gives freedom as my major goal. My desire to attain wealth goes beyond more real purchasing power to bring internal happiness.

Money

As a facilitation of trade, money is a mode of exchange. Due to the flexibility that money possesses it makes it a remarkable improvement from the era of barter trade. We will start by having a look at ...

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Based on Michel de Montaigne’s claim that it is “problematic to have both a body and a mind”, because the body’s monstrosity contrasts with the mind’s dignity (de Botton 122), is sexuality inadequate because it combines the bodily instinctive impulses with the reasoned intentions of the mind? De Montaigne’s view on the inadequacy of sexuality reflects the idea that the body is sometimes fighting against the mind, putting the mind in awkward situations, and further influencing it, as the mind develops processes that include hanging on the bodily effects, which once acted against it. When something goes ...

1. Introduction This thesis shall be limited to a critical analysis of Alain de Botton’s book, The Consolations of Philosophy; of the year 2000 which introduced a new perspective not only to the study of philosophy but also its application in our day to day lives. It is significant to point out that this book was a follow-up of the original Consolation of Philosophy that was written by Boethius in 524 A.D. basically, Boethius personified philosophy as a woman whereby he asserted paradoxical relationship between fortune and misfortune especially in relation to the phenomenon of human happiness. Therefore whilst the latter ...

Arguably, employee theft is a big problem for all types of firms, particularly small business organizations where there profit margin are very meager. I fact, research shows that small businesses go down a lot to employee theft than the way they make profits. Certainly, there is a lot of possibility that employees in an organization will be tempted to enrich themselves using company’s resources, but excellent internal control systems can reduces it. Therefore, employers should implement measures that detect, and deter employees from stealing physical items and embezzling financial resources. U.S Chamber of Commerce reveals that employee theft cost American ...

Commentators on Plato's The Apology of Socrates note that the author is using the literary artifice of the dialogue to teach lessons to his audience. Identify at least three lessons that you believe Plato teaches in this work and argue what you believe the author intends by using them.

The Apology of Socrates is Plato’s dramatization of the speech given by Socrates at his trial for the corruption of young minds and for not believing in the Gods. This trial resulted in the execution of Socrates: upon being given the death sentence, he was encouraged to run away ...