Category Archives: Applied Philosophy

The Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet , Miguel De Unamuno, is perhaps best known for his book the tragic sense of life (1913). In this he writes that all consciousness is consciousness of Death (We are painfully aware of our lack immortality) and of suffering.

As 2021 approaches and we say good-bye to the unprecedented year of 2020 we see a New Age is crawling toward the dawn of a new civilization. Especially after the Coronavirus humans all over the planet are awakening to a simple understanding that life is not all that appears on the surface. Facebook, twitter, and […]

As difficult as detachment from the world is detachment from the self, a form of humility opposed by a culture that instead worships self esteem. It is a contemporary axiom that lack of self esteem is the root of all evil, especially social evils such as violence, delinquency  and academic under achievement, and that strong self esteem is the solution to all problems both personal and social.

We take it for granted that we see things as they are and rarely question that opinion. We spontaneously assign intrinsic qualities to things and people, thinking ” this is beautiful, that is ugly,” without realising that our mind super imposes these attributes upon what we perceive.

In 1945, within months of his liberation from a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Viktor Frankl wrote the book ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’. The book not only explored the horrors and suffering that Frankl endured in the camps but majorly, it wanted to answer the question: what makes life worthwhile and meaningful? Here are some heart touching lessons from Man’s Search For Meaning’.

In a better arranged society, we would not only celebrate the lawyers and the doctors but also those who have the ability to soothe, to reassure their fellow beings in times of crisis or fear that their feelings are valid and that there is light at the end of the tunnel, provided one shows the […]

Marcel Proust was a French essayist, novelist and critic, better known for his phenomenal work in ‘A la recherché temps perdu’ (In Search of lost time), which was pseudo autobiographical in nature, narrated in a stream-of-conscious style. He is considered as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century by the English critics. […]

One of the hardest things in life is to relieve someone of their services or to put in millennial language, to fire them. When it comes to this particular situation, the common misconception is that no one likes to be on the receiving end. But, truth be spoken, no one likes to be on the […]