We are in a world where you have to choose to be a victim or an executioner – and nothing else”, writes Albert Camus in the journal Combat. He refuses to play this partition. “Neither victims nor exec...
Who is Confucius? Who has never dreamed of leaving behind the troubles of social and political life to live in a cabin in the middle of nature? Witness to an empire torn apart by the “warring st...
Is God there? In a world where people are more often busy than free, time goes by and some questions remain unanswered. Usually it’s at the end of its own life that, in proximity of the death, p...
Awareness about women rights is increased since the dawn of the 21st century. Countries, several non-for-profit organisations(NGOs) and women themselves have come forward to help the women realise the...
Theseus’ paradox is an ancient Greek legend, which we know by Plutarch, the Ancient Greek historian. The great hero Theseus sailed on his ship to Athens from Crete where he conquered the Minotau...
“If you really want to know the truth, doubt all things for once in your life.” -Descartes Descartes was one of the most important thinkers of the West in the last century. He w...
We all use emojis in daily life to express our feelings and emotions in text messages and they are really helping us with that. We just choose one that looks exactly how we feel, but are you sure abou...
WHO WAS DIOGENES? One of the greatest banners of Cynic Philosophy alongside one of his teachers, Anthistenes and a fellow thinker in Crates, Diogenes of Sinope (404-323 BCE...
To transmute suffering into strength We all strive for perfection, in whatever form it may take for each of us. An effortless loving relationship, an enriching profession, or limitless freedom ...
Who is Socrates? The word “philosopher” is the combination of the Greek words philei and sophia. This word means “friend of knowledge and wisdom” and then “who gives life...
Platonic Love is really what we think it is? We all have heard the expression “Platonic Love”. We immediately associate this expression with impossible, idealized love. That unattai...
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is a concept narrated by Socrates in Plato’s book ‘Republic.’ Plato is an ideal philosopher. In other words, he advocates that the material world o...
“Now in the 20th century, her truly philosophical side has begun to be accepted.” Simone de Beauvoir is considered as a writer, anthropologist, or a journalist, but people generally missed her philos...
Hypatia, known as Hypatia of Alexandria, was a philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer. His father, Theon, a Greek scholar, had a great role in Hypatia’s interest in science and self-i...
HU: In your paper, “Serious Philosophy”, what did you mean by using the word “serious,” and how do you approach humor in philosophy? Should it be included or not? Do you agree that to be serious, a ph...