Money is a storehouse of value and is used as a medium for exchange of goods and is a medium which is used by people all over the world. People save money for their future needs. Money serves a plethora of needs and services. It can serve as a medium of exchange for people when they want to buy new goods. In absence of the institution of money, there was the barter system. In the barter system, people used to exchange one good for another which he or she needed. This created lots of problems as ...

There are many reasons as to why money is preferred as a storehouse of value. Foremost, money is an accepted form of money and an accepted medium. Secondly, the value of money remains more stable when compared to other forms of commodities. Most importantly, it is much easier to store money than to store commodities as happened during the barter system. Storage of money does not need much space and so can be transported easily.

St. Thomas Aquinas sought to prove the existence of this “first mover,” which he deemed to be God, through his series of five cosmological arguments referred to as the “Five Ways.” In his first of the five cosmological arguments, Aquinas draws upon the existence of motion in order to offer an explanation for the existence of God. However, although his argument appears to be very sophisticated and logical, there are potential objections to be found with the premises themselves. After eval...

While I don't think any of the answers are bad or wrong. I must throw my wrench into the mix that 'evil' is our lens into history. We see as ‘evil’ what we find to be in direct transgression of the good. Our understanding of evil is thereby the antithesis of what we find best and most beautiful in life. If we say a murder is evil, then life itself is most precious. If we say that free thought and freedom are most precious something else entirely becomes most evil.

A brief review of the vast reality of our sky. What it means to be human on this small planet on the outskirts of the Milky Way. Seeing beauty in the life cycles of the cosmos: Big Bang to stellar clouds; Clouds to galaxies; Galaxies forming solar systems; individual stars bursting for as fusion ignites their very being and eventually burn them selves into oblivion. The ever expanding reality of life in the expanse of space, we are the stars, they are our forefathers.

A brief explication of some big questions in Philosophy and why we ask the questions that seem impossible to answer. Who are we? What are we? Why are we here? Are we mental conceptions? Or perhaps another physical thing in the vast existence of all universes. Read how philosophy nurtures and encourages the curiosity and reason that is the undercurrent to many advances in the sciences of today.

The exploration of the philosophical views of positivism and the natural law.

Buddhism is a pacifist religion that has a number of sects. All the sects believe in the Buddha, but follow slightly different paths to achieve Nirvana

Plato was a student of Socrates and is considered one of western civilization’s greatest philosophers.

A look at Existentialism, and how this school of thought can inspire you.

The dwarf god Vamana is the 5th incarnate of Vishnu.

The article ponders on the facts if recession

A brief summary of Immanuel Kant's philosophy of pure practical reason as it is discussed in his book, Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals. Included are explanations of his three formulations, the hypothetical and categorical imperatives, the Formula for Universality, the Formula for Humanity and the Kingdom of Ends.

5 Spiritual Quotes from 5 Great Minds in History

We have our own film center inside our body. Our senses are like cameras or tape recorders capturing the environment. Sense objects censored by our senses are gathered and processed in the most advanced computer – the brain, where these are rolled into a film. And you, the perceiver, get to view the screen of your mind.