Just a Girl from the North

Procrastination. The inevitable habit of delaying or postponing something. We all struggle with procrastination in our day to day lives. For example, we have an essay or a blog post due every Saturday by 11:59 p.m. We also have questions due the night before every class, also by 11:59 p.m. Determination talks to me in my head saying, “Go ahead and get it done when your classes for the day are over. That way you’ll be free the rest of the night.” However, procrastination takes its toll and I end up submitting my assignment under an hour until it’s due. In another scenario, procrastination pushes me so far that I simply forget about the assignment and end up using one of the delighted favors we are given. Procrastination is a parasite in the minds of a college student, like myself, and can cause so much regret. Marcus Aurelius highlights this issue of procrastination in his reflections, Meditations . My struggles with procrastination have mainly to do with school. However, Marcus Aur...

Many concepts are hard to grab in life, such as what is good and what is happiness. These concepts are highlighted in the book, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics . Aristotle states on pages four and five, “Now, let us pick up again and--since all knowledge and every choice have some good as the object of their longing--let us state what it is that we say the political art aims at and what the highest of all the goods related to action is. As for its name, then it is pretty much agreed on by most people; for both the many and the refined say this it is happiness, and they suppose that living well and acting well are the same thing as being happy.” Aristotle is basically saying that the best type of good is happiness. Now, one would think that this is absolutely obvious. If something good happens, does that not automatically effect in happiness? However, when is anything obvious when it comes to philosophy? This concept of happiness and good first need to be truly defined. It is agreed t...

Does a true wise man fear death? In Plato’s Apology , Socrates argues his answer with Meletus and the rest of those judging him. Meletus accuses Socrates of corrupting the young people and also accuses him of being a complete atheist(27). Socrates attempts to defend himself by pointing out the multiple contradictions of Meletus. One of these contradictions includes the accusation that Socrates is corrupting and deteriorating the youth intentionally. Socrates responds with the statement, “But you have just admitted that the good do their neighbors good, and the evil do them evil. Now, is that a truth which your superior wisdom has recognized thus early in life, and am I, at my age, in such darkness and ignorance as not to know that if a man with whom I have to live is corrupted by me, I am very likely to be harmed by him, and yet I corrupt him, and intentionally, too?--”(27). Socrates is saying that nobody likes to be injured. Therefore, why would Socrates intentionally corrupt someon...