Claude, So, how does desire and need for sex tie in with love? Where desire and need are admixed with … More
Category: Western Philosophy
Philosophers Can Learn From Poets?
Philosophy has long claimed authority over meaning by virtue of its methods: argument, abstraction, and generalisation. Poetry, by contrast, has … More
Violence and Its Antidotes – by Stanford University Professor and Evolutionary Biologist Robert Sapolsky
Six (6) 1-hour Videos on Violence and Its Antidotes
Psychopathology and Social Psychology – by MIT Open Courseware
Psychopathology and Social Psychology – Four (4) 1-hour Videos – by MIT Open Courseware Psychopathology I: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/resources/lecture-20-psychopathology-i/ Psychopathology II: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/resources/lecture-21-psychopathology-ii/ … More
Jaspers’ Concept of Boundary Situations
Karl Jaspers’ “boundary situations” (Grenzsituationen) are inescapable, extreme life experiences like death, suffering, guilt, and struggle/chance, which shatter everyday reality … More
“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth”–Camus
For Albert Camus, “extreme truth” means confronting life’s inherent meaninglessness (the Absurd) by pushing beyond comfort, convention, and societal illusions, … More
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy”
The phrase “Leisure is the mother of philosophy” means that deep thought, wisdom, and profound questions arise not from constant … More
Buddha or Marx? — Ambedkar
from the Introduction A comparison between Karl Marx and Buddha may be regarded as a joke. There need be no … More
Marxism, Buddhism and Socialism
“Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles, while capitalism is concerned … More
What is True Religion? Marxism & Buddhism
A friend asked this (see the image above) on his WhatsApp status, and I replied as follows: Marx did not … More
Know Thyself 