Essays on Self-Love

Option B

“Loving someone is different from being “in love” with them.” It is true that loving someone is different from being “in love” with them. Some people think that the two mean the similar thing, but this is not the case. As a matter of fact, there are some differences between loving someone and being “in love” with them. First of all, when we love an individual we need him/her to be around us most of the time. In other words, we usually want to be with the people we love more than anything else, and we can do anything ...

“Freedom on My Mind” is a film that chronicles the compelling and complex history of 1961 to 1964 regarding the struggles of black people in registering as voters. In 1961, the blacks were treated in a very inhumane way; they were not allowed to vote in the country, and voting could lead to a hefty punishment. Voters Registration Project was begun when a young man called Moses went to Mississippi. Herbert Lee, a farmer and the first person to accompany Moses to register at the courthouse, died later after being shot by the state legislator. The maids and sharecroppers ...

Explain why the move from amour de soi to amour propre is crucial Rousseau's claim that civilization has done more damage than good for the development of human mankind. The personality that featured himself as a continued importance to us is Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He has the importance because of the situations that are present in today’s world. In spite of him being left us a quarter millennium ago. He is the one who has an insight view of the living. That is living a better life in the competitive, status conscious and hierarchical societies. He has also provided solutions for ...

“Therefore, since each of these characteristics belongs to the good man in relation to himself, and he is related to his friend as to himself (for his friend is another self), friendship too is thought to be one of these attributes, and those who have these attributes to be friends. Whether there is or is not friendship between a man and himself is a question we may dismiss for the present; there would seem to be friendship in so far as he is two or more, to judge from the afore-mentioned attributes of friendship, and from the fact that the extreme ...

Religion and spirituality continue to be unrecognized as effective strategies for coping against tragedies and life pressures and as essential factors in self-protection and psycho-emotional resiliency (Bryan-Davis, Austria, Kawahara & Willis, 2014). Despite that, these concepts constitute key pathways towards the holistic health and well-being of women (Bryant-Davis, Gray & Bhang, 2014). This paper explores the influences of religion and spirituality on women’s wellbeing, the few specific forms of nontraditional spirituality (such as Astrology, Hinduism, Gnosticism, Yoga, and Meditation), the seven markers of spiritual wellness according to Pazzino (2014), my personal definition of spirituality, my personal spiritual wellness self-assessment, and ...

Prejudice and discrimination have been common all through humankind’s history. Prejudice needs to do with the unbendable and unreasonable mentality and assumptions held by parts of one gathering about an alternate, while discrimination alludes to practices steered against an alternate gathering. Being prejudiced normally means having preconceived convictions about gatherings of individuals or social practices. Prejudice can either be certain or negative—both structures are typically preconceived and hard to adjust. The negative type of prejudice can prompt discrimination, despite the fact that it is conceivable to be prejudiced and not follow up on the demeanor. The fact ...

In Anne Lamott’s personal essay called “Hunger”, she describes her battles with food, weight issues, bulimia, depression, and negative sense of self. Her struggles pushed her to face her issues head on even though there were so many women trying to help her get over her condition. According to Lamott, her problems began when at 13, she realized she was heavy at 100 lbs and even reached 130 lbs at the tender age of 14. This, coupled with the discovery that her father had cancer exacerbated her desires to stay lean and thin. Although she looked healthy, happy, ...

I was raised in the Jewish faith so my sense of self for many years was a tiny idea lost in a very crowded room. On the other hand I knew my sense of self existed with the shared belief and shared faith of millions of others Jews. Until this year when suddenly I realized that my sense of self has nothing to do with the Jewish religion. I had a ‘light bulb’ moment this year during a Rosh Ha Shana service in which I was overwhelmed with anger at the sexism, homophobia, elitism, and irrationality I found inherent in the religion. My ...

The relationship between nature, the state and individuals is a complex one; political philosophers have been studying these relationships ever since the dawn of time, with the goal being to determine the best way in which the people relate to nature. Based on the ideas of philosopher John Locke, the state does not have the ability to infringe upon the right of people to determine their own destiny; he believes that mankind’s best state is to bring the best parts of their natural instincts into society, collecting together into a “state of perfect freedom.” Conversely, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that ...

The generally accepted texted that defines Aristotle’s concept of self love is from his work The Nicomachean Ethics. Self-love, or love of oneself, is very inline in terms of how it is presented in Aristotle’s work as it is today. IT is an intense desire of value of the self that supersedes both other entities and their desires and longing. But for Aristotle, was self-love a good thing, or as he would say, a virtuous thing. Philosophical questions, generally yield question that look at facts rather than inclinations. Before answering that question it is important to know what Aristotle ...

The ‘Bridge of San Luis Rey’ is the second novel of Thornton Wilder, published in November 1927 and awarded with a Pulitzer Prize in May 1928. Written at an early age – Thornton Wilder was 29 at the time, teaching at a private school for boys in New Jersey – the novel has been widely acknowledged as one greeted with overwhelming feelings on behalf of its readers, since it approaches in a very innovative way issues troubling the human nature. Do Fate and Destiny predefine people’s lives? What is the extent to which humans are responsible for their experiences? Are some people condemned ...

The Screwtape Letters is a fictional work written by Christian apologist C. S. Lews. The book consists of an ongoing correspondence between two demons. One of the demons, Screwtape, is trying to teach the younger demon, his nephew Wormwood about his understanding of God. Obviously, a demon’s understanding of going to be distorted. Screwtape uses convincing arguments to teach his nephew Wormwood that God loves for people only for his own sake. But through his distorted views comes Lewis’s real views that he is trying to convey through Screwtapes distortion. The first time love in mentioned is Screwtape, ...