Issue: Philosophy

Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Posted by | Sep 2, 2020 | |

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it.

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Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 | |

Pluralism is a characteristic features of the world we live in. People belonging to different cultures, religions, languages, traditions and ways of the together in reasonable harmony.These cultural and religious traditions and woven together in such a way that, while every culture and religion keeps its uniqueness, it is also enriched by other cultures and religions. But in recent years there has been an increased rupture in harmonious living.The communal conflicts and violence in the past few years is causing to the beautiful fabric of humanity.

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Created Co-creator: An Alternative to Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism

Created Co-creator: An Alternative to Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 | |

Nature somehow complements the lives of human beings. Non-human world help human beings to actualize their potentialities and possibilities. But now a days nature is being ruthlessly exploited by human beings. To amass wealth, human beings exploit non-human world and its resources without considering nature’s demand. It instigates catastrophic incidents like ozone depletion, green gas effect etc. To resolve or even to justify such problems human beings tried to view nature from human being centered perspective. In contrast, a group of people tried to find ways to settle those issues by interpreting events from nature’s perspective.

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Being Human

Being Human

Posted by | Aug 28, 2020 | |

What is consciousness? Is the mind a machine? What makes us persons? How can we find the path to human maturity?

These are among the fundamental questions that Rowan Williams helps us to think about in this deeply engaging exploration of what it means to be human.

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