Liberty is a word that it is processed into a feeling that transforms into a direct challenge. When we think of liberty, we always think of something that goes beyond our senses and capacities. For most of us, the term liberty is a utopia dream created by ideas. Most of us truthfully defend the idea […]
Japanese philosophy initiates a feeling of calmness inside the self; a sensation of appreciation of specific things in nature and their cycle of life. It is a form of culture, and definitions of beauty have focused on the beauty of nature for hundreds of years. This particular philosophy revolves around the appreciation and sensitivity of […]
Rawls’s Theory of Justice John Rawls (1921-2002) was an American political and moral philosopher. He was considered one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century. His first and classic book, A Theory of Justice, was very well-known and so influential that it is said to revive political and moral philosophy debates […]
Time is a contradiction. The notion of time parades itself as the key constituent of life and universe. But in history of thought almost nothing has been explicated about it. Very few philosophers have locked their horns with the explanation of time directly. There is a good chance that a writer who attempts it will […]
Twenty-nine years ago, Francis Fukuyama announced the ‘end of history’. His initial article entitled ‘The End of History?’ was published in 1989 in The National Interest, a small foreign-policy journal. Later, Fukuyama dropped the question mark and extended the material into book-length in 1992 with the title The End of History and the Last Man. […]
Eric Walther introduces the infamous iconoclast. Friedrich Nietzsche, who was born in 1844, fell silent in 1889 and died eleven years later, was the first great philosopher of the twentieth century. What made, and makes, him so important, is that he recognized with great clarity and impressive foresight the most troubling and persistent problem of modernity, […]
An interesting technology has been invented for mankind; the creation of robots! It’s a common knowledge that these robots exhibit super speed and intelligence. However, they have no life, they may have a brain however, they lack one basic thing; mind. This explains their limitations. For the sake of our topic, I would define the […]
On a summer morning of 1846, H.D. Thoreau walks through the streets of his hometown, Concorde, Massachusetts. He has just been released from prison, where he spent the night for refusing to pay the Poll Tax to the state of Massachusetts. Due to this incident, the writer gave a lecture initially titled “Resistance to Civil […]
The golden age of philosophy has long past. Plato, Aristotle, Rene Descartes, David Hume and the controversial Friedrich Nietzsche are no longer popular figures in today’s intellectual discussions. Philosophical concepts such as Eternal Recurrent (Nietzsche), Dasein (Heidegger), or Deontology (Kant) are confusing, if not incomprehensible. Moreover, no one talks about the once hot topics of […]
Creation science or scientific creationism is a branch of creationism that strives to provide scientific support for Genesis creation narratives in the Book of Genesis and to reconsider or completely reject scientific facts, paradigms and theories of history, geology, biological evolution, cosmology, linguistics and archeology. This branch of creationism began to develop in the 1960s […]