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11 Jun

Unfiltered blabbering of a man

Maybe love is not all about the sparks and thrill and that feeling of rush and the butterflies in the stomach. Maybe love is nothing exhilarating, but just stable, something…

30 May

My Kind of Perfect

Maybe it’s because I just hiked my first mountain in Mt. Pinatubo and I wished she was with me because she’s the biggest mountain lover I know. Maybe it’s just…

19 Aug

Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner

Beyond Freedom started with Frazier’s statement. Each of us,” [T. E.] Frazier began, “is engaged in a pitched battle with the rest of mankind. Each of us has interests which…

18 Aug

The Myth of Sisyphus and its Relation to our Lives

When I was just a little kid, I remembered reading the Myth of Sisyphus and had thought how meaningless and pointless the myth is. Little did I know, I was very, very wrong.

18 Aug

Does God Exist?

Does God exist? The highly religious culture established in the Philippines makes this question a taboo. However, within the academic confines of a philosophy class, this precious inquiry is given…

18 Aug

Existence Precedes Essence

Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre                 What I discussed to the group was lecture by Jean-Paul Sartre in defense of Existentialism. This article was glittered with insights that…

18 Aug

Role in Society

                   Law keeps the community in order. It takes into consideration the benefit the community as a whole could gain.Unwritten laws are…

18 Aug

Epictetus’ Enchiridion

Epictetus’ enchiridion, like our professor said, is a good perspective-shifting reading. If I would summarize this reading in a statement, it goes like this – “Everything that happens follow the…

03 Aug

Saint Thomas Aquinas and his stand on Free Will

I do not think that humans have free will. The very fact that law exists that prohibits people to do certain things contradicts the very essence of free will. Also, the reality is that humans are bound by some social rules, which makes us not free.

13 Jul

What if I told you…

What are the things that you really know for certain? How can you justify these “knowledge” that you deem as true? If you ask me that, I’ll be honest and tell you that I really have no idea how to do that. No clue. Nil.

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