The conversation on the role of the state reoccurs in all ages of history for all generations. It is a central piece in understanding of the...
“All our dignity consists in thought….It is upon this that we must depend…Let us labor then to think well: this is the foundation of morality.”Blaise Pascal,...
“The mass man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh.” Jose Ortega y’ Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses...
Authors: Ash Narain Roy and Sophia Thomas* Meritocracy, political theorist Hannah Arendt famously says, “contradicts the principle of equality. Without equality, it is no less than...
Hamm: “What time is it”? Clov: “The same as usual.” Samuel Beckett, Endgame Credo quia absurdum, said the ancient philosopher. “I believe because it is absurd.”[1]...
Even the Mayor in Gogol’s Inspector General, not being the sharpest tool in the shed, acknowledged that Alexander the Great was a hero, although he cautioned...
The book “history and historians”, basically a survey of western historiography is written by “Mark T. Gilderhus” who is a graduate of Texas university. This book...
“One must become accustomed to living on mountains, to seeing the wretched ephemeral chatter of politics and national egotism beneath one.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra During the dissembling...
“It ain’t over till it’s over,” we learn from New York Yankee great Yogi Berra.[1] Now that Donald J. Trump has been defeated at the polls...
Thomas Carlyle’s political philosophy can be applied to inform Islamism and the construction of a post-Islamist political doctrine. This is because Carlyle’s conception of transcendentalism in...
