After the House and the Senate pass a bill, it goes for consideration to the president of the United States. There are some key differences in the functioning of the House and the Senate. […]
For a bill to become a law, it first needs to be passed through the House chamber. There the bill is debated in a controlled and limited way, and ultimately voted on. […]
In their tragedies, the Greeks reflected upon evil, fate, and luck in human affairs. ‘Oedipus Rex’, ‘The Women of Trachis’, and ‘The Bacchae’ are a few plays with this theme. […]
Some people believe in a supreme power such as God which decides our destiny. If so, the concept of free will would not be more than just an illusion. […]
The notion of free will is somehow in contradiction with the belief that claims there’s a god who could hold individuals morally responsible for their actions. […]
In recent decades, science fiction movies have started to investigate many unanswerable philosophical questions such as free will and fate with renewed interest. One of these movies is “The Adjustment Bureau”. […]
Thucydides’s philosophy regarding evil is that there is no simple moral order; all our moral actions are subject to dramatic reversal and there are no guarantees that the human’s moral sincerity will not turn out to be destructive. […]
Some people argue that science and religion must be compatible because many scientists are religious. But the question is not whether there are people who believe in both science and religion; the question is whether such persons are being consistent, or rational. […]
The protagonist of the film “Contact”, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, declares that her personal experience of meeting an alien was true, even though there is no scientific evidence to back it up. […]
Now personal experience is considered as very unreliable, so it cannot be used to overturn established scientific theory, unless it is verifiable or demonstrable. […]
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