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Performativity as a concept seeks to examine the meaning of a word or term in relation to the context within which the word was uttered. This means that the same term may vary in its meanings from one place to the other. In performative utterances,... read more
The 1999 article by Carlo Silvio, Refiguring the Radical Cyborg in Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell, is a detailed attempt to explicate the thematic influences of the Japanese animation film, Ghost in the Shell, primarily from the viewpoint of f... read more
No one wants to give an impression of being an unpleasant person, especially when it comes to critiquing such an attractive performing art like a stage play. A spectator should have a guiding steps or basis of art critique. Although the steps or ba... read more
Thousands of screaming youngsters, cheering, applauding, jumping up and down, dancing to the seemingly hypnotic “hooby-doopy, oop-shoop, ootie ootie, boom boom de-addy boom, scoobledy goobledy dump” (Altschuler, 2003) music. One look at these f... read more
The Different Images of Women as Portrayed in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Selected Stories, and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Through the years, women have already been a popular topic and focus of literar... read more
For educational institution to deliver the best instructions to students, the best teachers must be hired. For the principal to determine if their teachers are, the conduct of performance appraisal is needed. The said tool is one the evaluation tec... read more
The Outsiders, a 1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and distributed by Warner Bros. that starred Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, and Diane Lane, among others, delved on several societal issues, most evident of ... read more
The 1920 poem, The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, discussed a particular situation wherein a dilemma is presented characterizing the poet’s choices in life; illustrated as a divergence of the road that he had to traverse. Here, Frost’s master... read more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a book written by Patrick Suskind, published in 1985. As with any great literary works of our time, novels, such as perfume, are bound to have been made into a movie. And so it was the fate of Perfume to have bee... read more
Although fictional in nature, the story in discussion, Tip of the Iceberg, delves on allegories that represent several facts in the field of Business and Marketing, especially those dealing with the principles involved in systems thinking. As such,... read more
Obedience is a fundamental constituent in the smooth running of a social structure. It is a requirement in community living and only a person living in isolation cannot be asked to be obedient to any authority, he can act the way he pleases because... read more
Uncle Rock, a short story written by Dagoberto Gilb for the May 10, 2010 edition of The New Yorker, tells of the story of Erick, who is a young boy of Mexican descent living in America with his mother. While superficially the said story tells of th... read more
Waist banned, the article that was published in the July 30 2009 edition of The Economist, questioned the sagacity of imposing taxes on items that “do not reflect the true social cost of their consumption” (Waist banned 1), such as alcoholic be... read more
On Wearing Skirts Without Underwear, an article written by Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid, delves on the several complexities that associate and define Christology in the context of feminist sexuality and its consequences to the entirety of Theology, ... read more
A capitalist society could ideologically provide an opportunity that leads to the betterment of its people although not equally and therefore not achieving justice within the system. Capitalism lies on the idea that a person could achieve equality ... read more
The coin has been in circulation even before The composition of a coin differs in every nation and economic status. Once, coins were minted using gold and iron. In the United States, a coin is composed of gold, silver and copper as the law states i... read more
The first parts of the Leviathan had provided us a fundamental view of Thomas Hobbes regarding the dynamics of the human mind and how we interact in the environment around us. Restating it briefly, Thomas Hobbes does not believe on the objectivity ... read more
Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher who was born in 470 BC and died at 399 BC. He is popularly known as one of the founders of Western Philosophy. Socrates did not really leave a lot of philosophical writings for scholars to study but a lot ... read more
Human beings are characterized by two things: rationality and autonomy. These two concepts are intricately connected in such a way that the former serves as a precondition for the latter. This is to say that the concept of autonomy is grounded upon... read more
The entire pragmatist tradition is a response to the growing number of problems that arose from the Universalist framework that is a common characteristic of many philosophers in all eras. Simply put, the Universalist tradition is concerned in the ... read more
In comparing the philosophical ideas of Descartes and Moore, one is able to understand the varying ideas surrounding the concept of the external world. Both philosophers put forth ideas about what it means to be in a state of being awake versus a s... read more
The use of nonviolence as a successful way to fight political and social oppression began to gain in popularity after Ghandi used it to dispute British rule in India. Ghandi used this tool for several years to successfully assist India in winning i... read more
The abortion debate has remained a highly sensitive issue that has resulted to the liberals and the conservatives locking horns. It has continued to spark a moral and ethical row with some maintaining that it is morally and ethically wrong and henc... read more
Not too many people recognize the importance of being fully conscious of one’s rights and obligations. In most cases, many dissenters are far more concerned about their rights and privileges without putting the same weight to their obligations an... read more
Machiavelli in his overall discussion in his most famous book, The Prince had tried to accept the important role played by fortune or luck in the affairs of a prince or any political leader. However, it is important to note that though he ascribed ... read more
As a Sophist, Thrasymachus directly contrast Socrates and Plato’s belief on a universal way of living our life. It is important to note that Sophists teaches a great deal of relativity in every aspect of lives and the topic of justice is not safe... read more
The idea that human behavior, albeit complex and mysterious, is nothing more than the result of biochemical reactions is as old as the emergence of western medicine. Hippocrates laid the foundations of medical science by trying to unravel the biolo... read more
Plato’s allegory of the cave is arguably the most cited and the most famous allegory in the history of Western philosophy. Its beauty transcends from its literary creativity up to its philosophical significance that became a major tool to strengt... read more
Thomas Aquinas had provided us viable grounds for believing natural law. Primarily, Aquinas believed that there is a common ground wherein all attitudes and beliefs of humanity correspond. This is the human rationality. As a rational being, we are ... read more
“I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only hi... read more