Confucianism, sometimes viewed as a religion and sometimes as a philosophy, traces back to the sayings and biographical fragments attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-479 BC) recorded in the […]
Plato’s Theory of Forms refers to an ideal version (which he called a Form or an Idea) of something of which all objects within the physical world are merely imitations […]
Teleological ethics (also known as consequentialism) comes from the Greek word “telos” which means goal. It argues that the moral rightness of an action is determined by the maximization of […]
Chinese philosophy boasts a lengthy conceptual history spanning several thousand years. Within this stretch of time there came about a golden era of Chinese philosophy in which four major schools […]
The categorical imperative was German Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) way of devising a set of requirements that a maxim (or motivation) has to pass through in order for an action […]
Karl Popper (1902 – 1994) was perhaps the most influential philosopher of science active during the 20th century remembered for his works on the scientific method and politics (1). Some […]
Introduction This paper engages Walter Benjamin’s (1892-1940) essay On the Critique of Violence (1921) with particular emphasis on Benjamin’s understanding of law and violence, his concept of divine violence, and […]
Walter Benjamin’s (1982-1940) Critique of Violence (1921) is an analysis of the relationship between violence, the law, and justice. He believed that violence had not really been explored deeply enough […]
Paper penned for post-graduate studies, Religious Studies. Rationalism versus Empiricism, and Metaphysics on the Backfoot Much of Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) work was concerned with questions of the mind and metaphysics, […]
In The Communist Manifesto, German theorist Karl Marx (1818-1883), the father of Marxist theory, explained that history of society is a history of class struggles, a constant collision between the […]
