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May 3, 2021
Plato

This article has arguments from different sources and therefore some of them may seem to contradict each other.  Also words and meanings are not always consistent.  Readers especially students are advised to read this in conjunction with what they have been taught and if necessary seek clarifications from their teachers.

                                                      PLATO or Aristocles

January 3, 2021
How I Overcame Islamophobia

(This article was first published in the English daily newspaper Telangana Today, on 5th May 2020)

One day. That is all it took. For what? To overcome my Islamophobia. How? Before that, a little background, though these days everyone understands what one means by Islamophobia. Still, here goes.

February 14, 2017
On Kant

https://philosophynow.org/issues/118/An_Overdue_

February 14, 2017
Rorty on Rights

https://philosophynow.org/issues/118/Richard_Rorty_On_Rights

February 14, 2017
Rudolf Carnap

 
 
 

December 21, 2016
HINDUTVA IS DIFFERENT FROM HINDUISM

Hindutva Is Different From Hinduism” caption from http://www.savarkar.org/

  Many do not know the difference between Hinduism and Hindutva, and so it is disturbing to read and hear about ‘Hindu fundamentalism’.

December 13, 2016
A student’s guide to Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism and Humanism

https://phi

December 13, 2016
Berkeley's Idealism

https://philosophynow.org/issues/117/Berkeleys_Suitcase

December 13, 2016
Rupert Spira's Way to Enlightenment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7wg0xpDBXs

December 13, 2016
Voltaire

https://philosophynow.org/issues/117/Voltaire_1694-1778

November 13, 2016
Libertarians

https://aeon.co/essays/what-happens-when-li

November 13, 2016
The Social Contract

https://philosophynow.org/issues/116/The_Social_

October 11, 2016
Aristotle's Political Philosophy

https://philosophynow.org/

October 11, 2016
Schopenhauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k0LJGoC200

August 2, 2016
On Consequentialism

https://philosophynow.org/issues/115/The_Consequences_of_Accepting_Consequentialism<

June 12, 2016
Multiculturalism and India

Multiculturalism describes the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single jurisdiction, usually considered in terms of the culture associated with an 

June 12, 2016
Pluralism vs multiculturalism

 ‘E Pluribus Unum’ – From many one.
That’s what’s stamped on the  American currency. It means that it acknowledges that it is a pluralistic society. Not so much a melting pot but a stew. A society in which minority groups maintain their independent cultural traditions and where no one minority imposes its views on the other.

April 24, 2016
The Lack of Free Will

Write up provided by Dr. D. Samarender Reddy

(Edited from an extensive discussion on the Advaitin List Dec. 2000 – Jan 2001. This was triggered by the following quotation from Swami Dayananda Saraswati:

February 20, 2016
Is Morality Relative?

http://www.philosophersmag.com/index.php/tpm-mag-articles/11-essays/110-is-morality-relative

February 5, 2016
Ram Manohar Lohia
December 21, 2015
Simone de Beauvoir

Some of the arguments in this may seem to be inconsistent since the piece has more than one source and there are some arguments about Simone De Beauvoir which have been changed due to reading her differently. The reader is advised to keep a note of this while reading the piece.

There are some thinkers who are, from the very beginning, unambiguously identified as philosophers (e.g., Plato). There are others whose philosophical place is forever contested (e.g., Nietzsche); and there are those who have gradually won the right to be admitted into the philosophical fold. Simone de Beauvoir is one of these belatedly acknowledged philosophers.

December 14, 2015
Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre was born in Paris where he spent most of his life.

December 9, 2015
Development: The Amazing Emptiness Of Magic Words

 Article first published by the author in 29 November, 2015
Countercurrents.org

"Magical language is adept at constructing metaphors that establish symbols and link magical rituals to the world "

Development is a magic word that seems to be really working in India for the last year or two!
We love to believe in magic. And even if we don’t, we want to!

December 9, 2015
Link to rsn.aarweb.org/articles/

Please keep returning to this URL which will have various conversations being added.

http://rsn.aarweb.org/articles/transformational-presence-gandhi

October 2, 2015
Rupert Spira on Happiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb3PzxwEKCQ