“Thirty spokes share the hub of a wheel;
Yet it is its center that makes it useful.
You can mould clay into a vessel;
Yet, it is its emptiness that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows from the walls of a house;
but the ultimate use of the house
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The punctuation “!?” used in the title is an “interesting move” in the game of chess. This move cannot be classified either as a good move that will win the game or a bad move that will lead to defeat. A paradox that can not be explained.
Reentry, as a…
Let me start off this otherwise perceived serious topic with the funny trespassing sign on death :)
Jokes apart, human beings tend to think that at the time of death everything comes to a full stop. They fear that once they die, they would have no connection with the world…
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. -Mark Twain
Mark Twain was not being cynical rather realistic when he said that work is something to be avoided. Simply because work is an abstract concept existing only inside the human imagination.
Linguistic and conceptual development are two important facets of the language learning process. Acquiring a new word requires the child to recognize a conceptual unit and a linguistic unit, and create a connection between them.
Primary school teachers are often bewildered by the relationship between the teaching of language and…
Needs are essential to human functioning. The concept of human needs stems from our human nature that is the combination of the physical body and the incorporeal soul.
In order to sustain ourselves physically, we need such things as food, clean water, shelter, sleep, physical movement, and so on. These…
Every human being on the planet is intrinsically the same — a combination of the physical body and conscious Soul or life-atom. The soul is permanent and formless and adopts the body to become a human being and experience reality.
Humans have the capacity of imagination that other species do…
In his essay, The Reach of Imagination, Polish Mathematician and Historian Jacob Bronowski says, “The tool that puts the human mind ahead of the animal is imagery.” For us, memory does not demand the preoccupation that it demands in animals, and it lasts immensely longer because we fix it in…
We are told that we need to “be original”. But, do we even know what that means?
When people say “be original”, it has two possible meanings — they either mean “be different from the rest” or “do something entirely new, exclusive.”
The idea of “being special” and ‘different’ from…
“Philosophy” is derived from the word “Philosophia,” which means ‘love of wisdom.’ The discipline is all-inclusive and deals with the nature of reality, life, existence, ethics, mind, and consciousness, language, religion, metaphysics, science, and almost all areas we can think of.
Academic Philosophy is divided into these 5 categories:
