Sartre: Hell is other people (Explanation)
No Exit and the question of other people This quote by Jean-Paul Sartre is one of his most famous. It exemplifies his stance as an existentialist philosopher, and…
No Exit and the question of other people This quote by Jean-Paul Sartre is one of his most famous. It exemplifies his stance as an existentialist philosopher, and…
The consumer society by Baudrillard : A sociological approach to capitalism Consumer society, by Jean Baudrillard, is a major contribution to contemporary sociology and…
Plato vs Aristotle: Compared Philosophies Undeniably, Plato and Aristotle are the two rock stars of Greek Philosophy. Plato created idealism and Aristotle, later recuperated by Thomas Aquinas, became the official doctrine…
Let us then begin by dismissing all the facts, because they do not touch the question.Without going as far as Rousseau in this famous…
In daily life, nothing is really sure for the subject. Even obvious truths are doubtful: should I live here or there, should I forgive…
The state of nature is a concept used in political philosophy by most Enlightenment philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. The state of nature is a representation of human existence prior to…
Plato was already wondering if virtue could be learned and answered “no” (in the Meno), in the same way, we do not “learn” philosophy,…
Leviathan, subtitled Treaty of matter, form and power of an ecclesiastical and civil republic, is a work by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes whose…
Literature and philosophy These two areas of thought go hand in hand and can form a continuum: certain authors publishing essays (Balzac, Wilde), as…
Candide – Analysis Candide is Voltaire’s Masterpiece, the most read and commented work of the Age of Enlightenment around the world. How Candide is…
Memory, in philosophy, designates the persistence of the past. The past can persist in the form of simple habits; but memory more properly refers…
In Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, Kant gives an explanation of his theory of the unsocial sociability of men. In this, Kant affirms that man…
An existentialist concept Anxiety is a flagship concept of existentialist philosophy: vertigo of freedom in Kierkegaard refusal of responsibility in Sartre existential anxiety of…
Freudian definition of Lapsus Lapsus is a verbal or written or memory error that appears as an unconscious manifestation. Freud coined this term and…
In his Monadology, the philosopher Leibniz proposes a theory of pre-established harmony (sometimes called the concomitance hypothesis) in order to understand how things are…
Veganism & Philosophy Over the last few years, veganism has established itself not only as a diet, but above all (and this is the…
Cut, sharp, angular, these are the contours of the bodies in Egon Schiele’s work. The curves, when they are apparent, are soft, even flabby…
Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology: Body, Dialectics and Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of the greatest figures in phenomenology, with Husserl, Sartre and Heidegger. He mainly wrote:…
Gasset and Barbarians The Revolt of the Masses, by Gasset, is a paradoxical essay in an era of “runs and falls” and “calm in…
Trump stated that Covid-19 will be our big war. It’s a medical war. We have to win this war. It’s very important. Introduction Misname things…
Summary and Analysis of Schopenhauer’s Work: The World as Will and as Representation The World as Will and Representation, published in 1819, by Arthur…
If you want to know more about Thoreau’s thinking, maybe it’s simply a matter of treading his footsteps, in the nature closest to his…
Others in philosophy Others, in philosophy, is a recent concept. Until Hegel, the question of otherness had no right of city, solipsism (only the…
Freedom is a key concept in philosophy. It is defined, negatively, as the absence of constraint; positively like the state of the one who…