Human Replaceability? But now we are living in a world which tries its best, at least in some countries, to never take someone’s lives away. A lot of countries today are trying to abolish death penalty because of its perceived needless cruelty in exchange for life imprisonment. Other than that, a lot of countries today […]
When Killing is Actually Encouraged But is it true that a person’s death is always seen as a tragedy? Is it true that, by recognising the humanity in another person, the other person will always be seen as an equal, and that harming that person will therefore always be morally objectionable? I will argue that […]
Case Study: If a Fetus is a Person, Is It Moral to Kill It? Abortion was, in some countries, and still is, in Indonesia, a contentious issue. Generally speaking, the debate can be divided into two camps, one supporting abortion based on the freedom of choice, or the “pro-choice” argument, and those supporting the sanctity […]
Albert Camus terkadang adalah seorang tokoh yang seringkali dipikirkan sebagai salah satu tokoh eksistensialisme. Hal ini mungkin terjadi karena beberapa hal, Camus yang dekat dengan Sartre semasa hidupnya, dirinya yang memiliki pandangan yang merupakan campuran dari optimisme kemanusiaan dan pesimisme terhadap dunia, atau karena eksistensialisme sendiri terdiri dari kumpulan orang-orang yang saling tidak setuju dengan […]
The acts of drawing conclusions are something that we do every day. We usually do this by taking a premise, then by using a series of processes we arrive at a conclusion on what things are. We create conclusions all the time, either to solve some problems or to understand the world better. However, like […]