Marcel Proust was an early 20th-century French writer behind what is officially the longest novel in the world: À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) – which has 12,67,069 words in it. The text was published in French in 7 volumes, spanning over 14 years. And was immediately hailed as the […]
Category Archives: Applied Philosophy
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Aggression is often due to insecurity. When thrown outside aggression hurts others while when it is goes inside the person it creates stress. What is insecurity? Insecurity is always related to future. The mind has this unique quality to exist only in future and therefore all insecurities are related to future. Insecurities related to our […]
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Jonathan Dancy is a 20th century British philosopher who has written on ethics and epistemology. In his text, An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Dancy offers us three arguments that the skeptics offer us to prove the uncertainty of knowledge. These are ‘Brains in Vats Argument’, ‘The Argument from Error’ & ‘The Arguments from Experience’.Skepticism is […]
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A mature person never commits the same mistake again. But just an old person goes on committing the same mistakes again and again. He lives in a circle. He never learns anything.
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Let’s see what the ancient Greek Philosopher had to say about life! 1. Pain Is Essential Aristotle believed that to learn something important, one had to exert both physically and mentally. And many a times, this effort towards learning involved pain. He encouraged us to embrace this pain and see its bright side: the learning. […]
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The Self of a Buddha, one who had achieved cessation of attachment to the aggregates, could only be understood firsthand. One cannot convey enlightenment in words; one experiences it directly.
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Adult social life operates under the premise that it is the seriousness of our conversations that determines how close or far away we are from the person sitting next to us. If we talk to them about how our day went or how the sky looks particularly stunning that day or how we detest the […]
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They have added to the beauty of existence, but nobody should be so arrogant as to say, “I am the last.”
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“Be in the moment” – no matter which part of the world we live in, all of us have heard this phrase at some point in our lives. And yet for some reason, we always find our heads anywhere except for in the present.
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How many times have you offered your seat to someone in need or made food for the sick and the needy or helped out your friend during tough times or prayed to God for someone else’s well-being and health? Prosocial behaviour or helping someone can take many forms – from performing acts of bravery to […]