Philosophy
Knowledge and Contemporary Skepticism: Modern Trends and their Dilemma
To know is to better yourself. But what is it to know? Is sensing something the same as knowing it or does knowing depends on something more profound? From the days of antiquity and even earlier man has been asking similar questions and trying to answer them. A consensus has…
Meaning from Context: The Importance of Meaning
What is the end goal of humans? Pleasure? Is that all we want? No, we want more. We want to conquer ourselves. We want to conquer everything that the eyes see, the ears hear and the mind thinks. Every idea, every imagination possible. We want to conquer the world. We…
The Self Centeredness of Modern Age: Individualism and Obsession with Self
The terrors of ego. How great they are? Yet how small is the cell in which we live with it? The word I, the sense of possessiveness, the righteous anger against incursions on it, the illusions of power and the realities of incapacity and weakness that it conceives; the anger…
An Bewildering Take on What Is the Meaning Of Life: My Life Search For Meaning
In search of meaning, I go through this desert of meaninglessness. In search of meaning, I leave the pleasures of this hedonistic palm grove. I go far and wide in this search. I pass through cities; inhabited and abandoned. I pass through ruins, forests, and jungles. I cross mighty rivers…
Creative Ideas And Poetry: Where do Good Ideas Come From?
I regularly write poetry. Sometimes the ideas come like a blazing fire, sometimes like meteors; sudden miracles that vanish as quickly as they appear. Sometimes they are like a flowing stream; slow, continuous, and never-ending. But always there is something new. A new valley of thoughts, a new stream of…
A Disgusting Truth About the Rule of Majority: An Argument Against Democracy
Democracy is the rule of the mob, from top to bottom. No doubt that it is not depicted as such but when you go into its subtilities it is nonetheless nothing but mob rule. It is said that democracy is run by the opinion of the people, by their freedom,…
Deep Questions About Life: Questions To Make You Think
Am I this dust? This humus? These bones without skin? Am I this beating heart? These veins? This blood in a shapely form? Am I these hands and feet? This head and shoulders? This stature? This color? This all belongs to me but I ? What am I? What is…
The Power of Telling Stories: How Storytelling Creates Meaning
Why stories are important? We view our World in stories. It is how we give meaning to our life. The idea of our place in this world, where we have come from, where we will go. How we see the beauty and how we connect it to our whole experience.
244 Powerful Poems, Rumi Quotes About Love, Life And Friendship
Who was Rumi Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi also known as Mowlana or Mawlawi was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and a Sufi mystic. Rumi has influenced people across linguistic, cultural, and national boundaries. The whole Turco-Persian world from India, Central Asia to Turkey is greatly influenced by him. Lately,…
Why is Philosophy important?
Whether it is art, science or history whenever we start to dig a little deeper, philosophy shows its face. Why is philosophy so important?
