Humanity Essays and Research Papers

What does it mean to be human? Rene Descartes argued that humanity was a question of consciousness; Charles Darwin believed the answer was written in our DNA; Sia crooned that “[to] be human is to love”. For centuries, the world has struggled to find a conclusive response, and in an era defined by the development…

Erickson points out that the study of Theology is more than understanding how humans were created, but it also seeks to understand the purpose for which humans were created. Today, there are several alternative theories of humanity that are accepted as religious teachings which try to explain the science behind creationism. However, applying a biblical…

What is humanity? I believe that humanity is the community of male and female beings whom God created to work on this earth. The dictionary definition of humanity says, “n. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth, n. the quality of being humane”. Ok, the first part makes sense. I would take it…

In this course, we discussed two main categories of ethical theories, theories of the good, which describe what makes something good or bad, and theories of morality, which describe what makes an action right or wrong. One such theory of morality is the non-consequentialist theory of Kantianism. Kantianism is a non-consequentialist view because according to…

The article “how and how not to love mankind”, written by Theodore Dalrymple, is about the humanity and welfare of humankind. The author talks about the two famous writers of the nineteenth century Ivan Turgenev and Karl Marx. Both being born and died at the same time, and living the lives paralleled to each other,…

Kafka’s the Metamorphosis is hitherto considered as a story with many insightful implications: the reflection of a parent-child relationship, the world dominated by money, the change (active or passive), or the loss of people among relatives, colleagues … Readers of the novel often fall into feelings of depression, sadness mixing when the story ends, also…

Charles Darwin’s idea of Survival of the Fittest has been associated with selfishness with the primitive instinct to survive. Although when Darwin studied human evolution, he did not distinguish humans as being biologically competitive and self-interested. He believed that humans are immensely social and caring, to which he argued that sympathy and showing affection towards…

We live on planet Earth, alongside billions of fellow humans. It is impossible to care and be kind to everything on our planet, every country plagued with poverty, every person suffering. What is kindness really? Kindness is defined in the Oxford dictionary as “behavior marked by ethical characteristics, a pleasant disposition, and a concern for…

First of all, introducing the concept of love in our daily lives argues that romantic love by Brogaard, B. (2015), much like worry, anger, and unhappiness, is an emotion and as an end result can, like all emotions, be assessed for rationality. Furthermore, simply as other feelings, romantic love can take numerous paperwork; it can…

Freire in the book argues that contemplating the world and taking concrete actions within the world is linked. It isn’t enough to talk out against oppression if people don’t fight it oppression, then those words are futile. Freire uses this idea of combined reflection and action in his discussions of liberation, praxis, and dialogue, because…