To Kill a Mockingbird is a book by Harper Lee, which was later made into a film with the same name. The story is set in the 1930s American South, in the “tired old town” (Lee 5) of Maycomb, a place which she fabricated for the purpose of her book. The main characters in this book are Scout Finch, a tomboyish six-year-old, her older brother … Continue reading To Kill A Mockingbird

The Euthyphro Dilemma is a famous philosophical question first posited by a character, called Euthyphro, in Plato’s ‘Socratic dialogue’ on goodness. Gottfried Leibniz rephrased it as whether the good and just “is good and just because God wills it, or whether God wills it because it is good and just”.  Although this dilemma seems impossible to answer, I believe that this is a false dichotomy, … Continue reading The Euthyphro Dilemma