Albert Camus’ introduction Albert Camus was an Algerian-French writer, novelist, metaphysical essayist playwright, and a Nobel prize-winner. While he was neither by formal training nor a philosopher by practice, his novels, studies, papers, essays, and speeches, it ranges from extremism and political extremism to even suicide and capital punishment. He made significant, influential inputs to […]
The Following is an Excerpt from this Book Albert Camus (Nov 7, 1913 – Jan 4, 1960) was an Algerian born French author, journalist, and philosopher. In 1957, at the age of 44, he has conferred the Nobel Prize in Literature, in history’s the second-youngest recipient. Camus had been born to French parents in Algeria. […]
Aldous Huxley: An introduction Aldous Huxley was born in the year 1894 in Surrey, England. He had been the third son of the novelist and school teacher Leonard Huxley, who transcribed Cornhill Magazine also his first wife, Julia Arnold, who established Prior’s Field School. Julia was the poet and critic’s Matthew Arnold’s niece and Ms. […]
The Following is an Excerpt from this Book Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a prominent English author and one of the famous Huxley family’s most influential members. He had published a variety of novels, on different topics. Many of his books deal with contemporary culture, with the implications of […]
George Orwell: About his life Being an essayist, novelist, and critic, George Orwell was best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was a man with strong convictions who addressed some of his time’s biggest political movements, including nationalism, populism, and communism. George Orwell was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, […]
The Following is an Excerpt from this Book George Orwell was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari in Bihar (then, British India). His great-grandfather, Charles Blair, was a rich country fellow of England and had an income as a landlord of plantations in Jamaica. His grandfather, Thomas Blair, was a clergyman. Eric Blair (Orwell) […]
Hegelian dialectic is a very prominent dialectic method among scholars after Medieval times. Hegel is also among the pioneers of modern philosophy, inventing a method of finding the truth without waiting for external ideas to constantly pop up.The Hegelian dialectical method consists of a triadic development. It starts with the development of a thesis, a […]
Immanuel Kant was an influential German philosopher of the 18th century. He has authored several famous books related to philosophy. In his book, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of the Morals, he introduced the principles of Categorical Imperatives (CI). They are moral laws that must be obeyed unconditionally under all circumstances. They are not like commandments. […]
Any philosophical check of war will fixate on four general inquiries: What is war? What causes war? What is the relationship between human instinct and war? Could war ever be ethically reasonable? Characterizing what war is required deciding the elements that are permitted to start and take part in the war. Also, a man’s meaning […]
Happiness has been a significant concern among the folks throughout the ages. Everyone has their own meaning of happiness but oftentimes, those ideas don’t lead us to happiness. In unfortunate circumstances, those thoughts lead us to the unhappiness. According to the research, there exist more than 450 terms for happiness that have no direct translation. […]
Immanuel Kant defines happiness as what an individual wants, he states that we cannot accurately know what happiness is in general, but we can give some examples that are associated with happiness such as health, sex, wealth, honor, etc. happiness vary from people to people and that is why happiness is accidental and undeterminable. This […]
Plato, the Greek philosopher, is described as one of the most influential leadership thinkers because he thought a great deal about leadership. He develops a structure on the nature of leadership in an absolute state. According to Plato, rulers motivated by self-interest were not suitable for leadership. Plato states that a city should be governed […]
Philosophy is a standout amongst the most difficult endeavors a human can go into. It is a standout in the midst of the most effective mental orders people have created in their time on this planet. It has changed the course of human occasions far and wide in conduct that are both unpretentious and in […]
About this Book Philosophy is not a “Lifestyle”. Each individual does not have his or her own “Logic”. Philosophy is not just a hypothesis about something. Nor is Philosophy a conviction or a wish. Logic is an action: a mission after intelligence. Philosophy is a movement of thought. Philosophy is a specific one of a […]
About this Book Philosophy deals with finding answers to questions related to existence, enlightenment, knowledge, duty, etc. through critical reasoning and arguments. Kantianism is an important part of western philosophy. Categorical Imperatives (CI) are central to Kantian ethics. They are unconditional and absolute and must be followed under all circumstances without any regard to desires […]
About this Book Dialectic is a method of discussion between two arguments in an effort to finding a better truth and throughout histories, various philosophers have come up with their own logic of dialectic. Hegelian dialectic was born during the modern philosophy time, adopting Plato’s dialectic with Hegel’s own touch to it. Hegelian dialectic unites […]
About this Book We love being in constant communication with each other. We love to share our experiences be it about what we had for lunch or about the latest game out in the market. Humans share things happening in their lives and this is called as storytelling. The narration of life instances and experiences […]
About this Book Karl Marx named as socialism father advocated equality for all, sought tribalists rights to operatives and that there were state-owned enterprises to private lives of which profits are distributed to society for the welfare of all. He developed the idea that the nation excluding capitalism that benefited the worker and discards when […]