Forrest Gump As My Spiritual Guru
The lines “Run, Forrest, run!” are etched in public memory as one of the most memorable scenes of cinema history, when young Forrest...
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- Jun 4, 2019
- 5 min
At Least they Didn’t Discuss the Weather
Whenever a philosophical and academic furor becomes the object of public attention, opprobrium and excitement, it is the duty of the...
- May 31, 2019
- 5 min
Andrew Breitbart’s Hate Machine
The following is a hilarious excerpt from Bob Woordward’s recent book, Fear: Trump in the White House: In August 2010, six years before...
- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
How To Actually Change the World
If there has been a political figure with a legacy so untouched and untarnished, it has to be Mahatma Gandhi. Orwell wrote of Gandhi, a...
- Mar 23, 2019
- 6 min
Cārvāka: The Atheist-Materialist School of Indian Philosophy
Cārvāka is an unorthodox school in Indian Philosophy which deals with epistemological questions like – How far can we know reality? How...
- Jan 29, 2019
- 9 min
The War Against Truth
The official newspaper of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union was called Pravda (translated to ‘truth’) because it engaged in...
- Jan 29, 2019
- 7 min
The Philosophy of LGBTQ+
LGBTQ+ ideas and thought have a historical relationship in the philosophical discourse. From the ancient Greeks to ancient India. The...
- Jan 28, 2019
- 5 min
Capitalism in America
“No manufactures for distant sale have ever yet been established in any of their towns,” wrote Adam Smith of Britain’s American colonies...
- Jan 28, 2019
- 45 min
The Philosopher as an Intellectual
I Without going too much into the conceptions of the intellectual, let me just state that in my view, in a contemporary democratic...
- Jan 25, 2019
- 15 min
Seeing Backward to Look Ahead
“The sum of Martin Luther King’s four catastrophic forces—militarism, materialism, racism, and poverty—point to something larger in the...
- Jan 24, 2019
- 24 min
How to Disagree without being Disagreeable
Introduction It is tempting to assume that disagreements about the principles, policies and institutions that shape contemporary...
- Nov 5, 2018
- 6 min
What’s Your Totem?
The fascinating aspect about dreams is not what is unreal, but the parts which are so real that we can’t confront them when we’re awake....
- Oct 17, 2018
- 6 min
Two Sides of Different Coins
“For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real...
- Oct 13, 2018
- 6 min
Greek Antiquity & Early Vedanta Philosophy
It is not hard to find similarities between philosophers across times. This article however, does not seek to establish a definite...
- Oct 13, 2018
- 6 min
Are Successful People Just Lucky?
Why are there “successful” people and what are the reasons they are successful, and others are not? Is it because of hard work and the...
- Oct 13, 2018
- 5 min
The Selfish Nature of Altruism
When people consider altruism, they refer to acts of selfless compassion. To be altruistic is to go beyond the opportunistic nature of...
- Oct 13, 2018
- 8 min
Netflix & the Choicelessness of Choice
With the advent of ‘modernity’, it has become crucial that we, as human beings, choose, and even more important aspect of it is that we...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 7 min
The Millennial Writer on Drugs | Andrew Marzoni
American writers have been writing about drugs since at least 1842, when English immigrant William Blair published “An Opium-Eater in...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 11 min
The Two Cultures Revisited: On Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’ | Jared Marcel Pollen
Does the Enlightenment require a defense? Aren’t its truths demonstrative and self-evident? In 2018, that a book like Steven...
- Jul 10, 2018
- 3 min
XXXTentacion: Should we mourn the death of a bad person? | Erica Schumener
Why should we mourn the death of a bad person? I was recently struck by an interesting philosophical conversation on death that emerged...