Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality (Summary)
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean Jacques Rousseau : The story of the mankind Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality…
Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus (Summary)
Epicurus, Greek philosopher, left us only three letters: the first, Letter to Herodotus, presents his metaphysics, the second is the letter to Pythocles, explains…
Mary Wollstonecraft and Rights of Women (Summary)
Wollstonecraft’s life : A Feminist Muse fighting for rights of women Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759 in London. When she was young, she…
Sartre: Nausea (Analysis)
Nausea as an ontological feeling Nausea is the first novel by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. This novel tells the ontological experience of Roquentin,…
Nozick & Distributive Justice (Summary)
Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia as a critique of the Rawls distributive justice theory: Here is a paper on the major work of political philosophy…
Kierkegaard Quotes
Quotes & Important Sayings by Soëren Kierkegaard on Existentialism, Faith and Love Soeren Kierkegaard, a danish philosopher, is probably as much influential as much misunderstood…
Citizen Kane (Analysis)
Citizen Kane : Analysis on Happiness and Money If Charles Foster Kane is in itself an impressive well of treasures, the film that depicts…
Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Analysis)
Milan Kundera is a leading contemporary writers. Author whose life was tormented by communism, Kundera left Czechoslovakia to seek refuge in France in the…
Philosophical Literature
Literature and philosophy Literature and philosophy go hand in hand and can form a continuum: some authors publishing trials (Balzac), as well as some…
If god does not exist everything is permitted – Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky, God and Ethics Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering, Dostoevsky,…
Plato’s Philosophy Summary
Plato’s thought: A philosophy of reason Plato was a Greek philosopher known and recognized for having allowed such a considerable philosophical work. The sensible…
Simone De Beauvoir: One is not born a woman, but becomes one
De Beauvoir: An Existentialist philosophy The Second Sex is the greatest book of contemporary philosophy of feminism. Simone de Beauvoir presents his major thesis,…
Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Famous quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre, a french existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher, is the most read and most commented thinker around the world….
Nietzsche Philosophy Summary
Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher Nietzsche is the philosopher of the will to power, seen as vital creation and fulfillment. What is essential is…
Arendt:The Human Condition (Analysis)
The Human Condition is a work by Hannah Arendt published in 1958. Hannah Arendt studies the vita activa for itself, regardless of the vita…
The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell
Russell, an epistemologist and moral philosopher Bertrand Russell, british philosopher, is one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. He is both a…
Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Quotes & Sayings by Marcus Aurelius, roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor, usually related to the Stoic philosophy (others famous stoic philosophers…
Solipsism (Definition)
The solipsism is a philosophical theory which asserts that i am the sole existent, the sole true reality. To be a solipsist, I must…
Descartes: Philosophy Summary
The Philosophy of Rene Descartes, a french rationalist Rene Descartes is the most famous french philosopher. Indeed, Descartes got nice charts of works to…
A Clockwork Orange : Analysis
Analysis and Commentary on A Clockwork Orange After Dr. Strangelove in 1963 and 2001, A Space Odyssey in 1968, Stanley Kubrick makes a third…