Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman and Amostversky has studied this extensively. We are easy prey for the conjunction fallacy because we have an inate attraction to ” harmonious”or ” Plausible” stories. The more convincingly impressively or vividly Chris the aid worker is portrait, the greater the risk of false reasoning.
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
Many Sadgurus, the true masters, especially the Zen masters discouraged this tendency of the lethargic attitude of the meditators and taught them to work as meditation.
Nandita Kochar Yes, there most definitely is. Detachment means distancing oneself from the world due to a lack of interest. Detachment finds its home in aloofness. It’s a form of escapism, the kind that causes suffering in the end. Non-attachment is a practice of mindfulness and being wholly in the present. It’s also not letting […]
And I am not saying be against sex, no. But let sex be more a subjective phenomenon than objective phenomenon. And that is the difference between sex and love. Love is subjective, sex is objective.
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, writer and political activist, and one of the central figures in 20th Century French philosophy. He is best known as the main figurehead of the Existential movement. In his writing, ‘The Work of Art’, Sartre first establishes clearly that he does not wish to deal with the problem of […]
Sitting silently, doing nothing, start swaying in a kind of inner dance and start saying ‘Yes… yes…’ Go into it. Let it come from your very heart. Let it spread over your whole being.
Builders of the temples of Khajuraho and Konark believed that as long as the outer wall held a fascination for you, you could not enter the inner sanctum. So first, you should satisfy your curiosity with the outer walls, you should meditate on the naked figures. The day you found that those walls no longer […]
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is based on the premise that it is an individual’s distorted thoughts and subsequent beliefs about an event that results in emotional and behavioural consequences, as opposed to the event in itself. The A-B-C model under CBT explains this: activating event -> belief -> consequences. Thus, by focussing on beliefs and changing […]
Can travelling be approached from a philosophical point of view? Of course! Let’s see what have been some of the major philosophical strengths and drawbacks on moving from place to another.
To exists, to survive, you have to do much. And then, by and by, your activity becomes a barrier to knowing your being. Your activity is your circumference- you live on it, you cannot live without it. But it is only the circumference, it is not you, it not the centre.