#Philosophy

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Greg Restall Interview: For as long as I could remember, I liked asking the question “why?”

Greg Restall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He...

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...

The Philosophy of LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+ ideas and thought have a historical relationship in the philosophical discourse. From the ancient Greeks to ancient India. The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Review: Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ | Divanshu Sethi

Rarely do we we get to see such visual representation of reality from the mainstream medium of music as in the recent single released by...