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65The Perils of Community
Exploration of the behaviors and customs we entertain in society through an exclusive interview with Alceste, The Misanthrope by Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin). Whet your appetite for the hilarious and sophisticated satire that first graced the stage on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris by the King’s Players.
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77What is Nihilism?
What is Nihilism? Nietzsche's famous philosophy is discussed in this article. The article also makes reference to Dostoevsky and Camus among others writers and philosophers.
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53Sounding like an Intellectual
Have you ever been to a party and you jumped into a conversation you don’t understand because they are talking about Impressionists or Surrealists? Do you wish you could sound more academic rather than clueless? Well, I did and I decided to do...
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79A Critique of Jean-Paul Sartre's "Existentialism"
In “Existentialism” (Gary E. Kessler, Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader, 4th ed., Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001, 496-503), Jean-Paul Sartre defines the philosophy of existentialism and demonstrates that it is...
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68On Vladimir Nabokov
That Nabokov never did win the Nobel is what’s at least partly to blame for what I’ve always called (with perhaps undue self-congratulation) Nabokov’s Stockholm Syndrome. Quick: what do Hermann Hesse, Saul Bellow, Boris Pasternak, Sinclair...
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71Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard
To be a human being to Kierkegaard is to write a story of oneself. Calling existence a story is very apt because a story also has a beginning, a middle and an end and because a story is also subjective. We use our imagination to realize out own story and the story helps us find our ground in reality. Imagination thus enables us to get out of our ‘thereness’ and lets us look at ourselves and make ourselves.
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71Drug Use and the Doshas in Ayurveda
Vata Addictive drug use begins as a kind of bargain in which immediate, short-term satisfaction is gained at the risk of serious long-term physical, emotional, and legal problems. Impatience - for sensation, for excitement, for peer acceptance - is...
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53Why Lack Of Free Will Is A Good Thing
Why Free Will Matters, Even Though We Don't Have It With free will arguments, there is usually a skeptical nagging in the back of many people's heads which asks appropriately "why does this conversation even matter?" Many people who debate free...
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82Analysis of The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon and Colonialism
The Wretched of the Earth or Les Damnés de la Terre is written by Frantz Fanon during the Algerian struggle for independence from colonial rule. As a psychiatrist, Fanon explored the psychological effect of colonization on the psyche of a nation as well as its broader implications for building a movement for decolonization. He also explores the need for nation building and how the newly independent countries can rise from poverty and succeed on the world stage.
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