“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.” Marx believed that real joy comes from … More
Category: Western Philosophy
“The personal is political.”
With apologies to Sartre and Camus, what is life for? — by B Maria Kumar
“All these clues suggest that Mother Nature itself has placed the responsibility for one’s existence and wellbeing not merely at … More
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”–Nietszche
An enemy may hold an uncomfortable truth, while a friend may sometimes reinforce our weaknesses. Nietzsche therefore turns conventional thinking … More
Know Thyself, Everything Else is Noise
My Inner Guru to Me: Chalo, Sam, bahut hogaya ye poetry likhna aur cutely witty hona. Zara serious lo life … More
The Last Leg of the Journey?
I sometimes wonder if I should cease to be, at least in the form of writing. One sees that one … More
Down with Male Patriarchy
The context in which I am writing this is the Raksha Bandhan coming up on Friday, August 28, 2026. If … More
Be Nobody – The Philosophy of Diógenes de Sinope
The things that Sartre does get right in his 1946 lecture “Existentialism is a Humanism”
The one thing that Sartre does get right in his 1946 lecture “Existentialism is a Humanism” (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm) is this: “Our … More
“Essence Precedes Existence”, or Taking on Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre, that quintessential French philosopher of the 20th century, pronounced in his famous 1946 lecture “Existentialism is a Humanism” … More
Know Thyself 