Category: History

In my AP Euro Class, we learned a decent bit about Enlightenment individuals. The main ones were Montesquieu, Voltaire, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Mary Wollstonecraft. However, when you study philosophy, you realize that these individuals are mainly mentioned in history because of their political significance. David Hume, despite being part of this time period, Read more

After finishing Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, I thought about what I should read next. I wondered: “Should I choose a simpler story, should I start reading a series, or should I continue on this trajectory and keep reading more complicated books?” After a lot of wandering, I thought about how I was playing Read more

We know that life isn’t black or white. There’s a ton of gray space, where something isn’t entirely good but isn’t entirely bad. Every living being on Earth is gray, because the truth is that they each cause good things and bad things to other people. Probably the best example of this is Al Capone. Read more

If I put an apple and a tomato in front of you and ask you to find something in common, what is the first thing you would say? There are a variety of similarities between the two objects, but the most common ones are that they are both fruits and they are both red. After Read more