After the end of the first Great War, the world settled into an era of peace and recovery, or so it seemed. In Germany however, the stage was being set to play out one of the greatest tragedies in human history. Anti-Semitism is a problem that has plagued the Jewish community since the beginning of time. When combined the deprivation of moral standards in Europe and the rise of national totalitarianism in Germany, the results were nothing but disastrous. The horrors of the Holocaust produced many evils but also many lessons.
Monday, December 25, 2017
Human action is no exception
The debate between free will and determinism stems from the apparent conflict between the universal rule of causality found in nature and the apparent ability of men to choose between multiple courses of action in order to lead to the most desirable outcome. Inorganic matter such as chairs, stones, and planets, blindly follows whatever forces affects it, and non-human organisms act for their survival alone, but human beings seem to be an exception to natures rule by their unique ability to ponder about how to go about their life and which values to live by.
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