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As Nietzsche states in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, mankind is placed in between a monkey and the Overman. Moreover, he states that the Overman is the final aim of men, and the process will go through 3 stages an...

Metaphysics is the study of the nature of reality. If you happen to ask yourself question like "Am I the same person I was yesterday?", or "does time really passes", or again "what i...

Utilitarianism, as it is best understood, is the idea that the best moral action is that which maximises utility. Utility is shorthand for good consequence, this good consequence being the state of highest w...

Two schools of thought dispute the existence of Free Will: the soft determinists and the hard determinists. Soft Determinists believe in partial Free Will. Kant says that we can't control the emotions we fee...

Direct realism (or naïve realism) as a theory of perception claims that what we perceive are real objects and their properties, and that these objects exist without even minds to perceive them. This often se...