Philosophy

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx, a German philosopher, revolutionary, economist, and historian, famously known as Karl Marx. He is the writer of the two most celebrated pamphlets in the history of the socialist movement, The communist manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital. This article will discuss Karl Marx and explain Karl Marx’s Class Theory. The early life of […]

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Jean Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre was born on 21 June 1905 in France. He was a novelist, philosopher, playwright, screenwriter, and biographer. He was also a chief figure of French philosophy and Marxism in the 20th century. Although he tried to refuse it initially, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.  Several of his works attract

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Inherent knowledge

Philosophy has a set of beliefs and ideas that explain the meaning of life and provide insights. It means “love of wisdom.” There are many essential concepts in the context of philosophy, one of which is rationalism. Rationalists argued that knowledge is based upon prior knowledge and consists of an inherent framework in the western

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Individual and State

To begin with, Individual and State have two different opposing views that can be held regarding the relationship that should exist between the Individual and the governing power of the State views that, in their extreme form, can be expressed as follows: the Paternal, in which the state does everything for the individual, and the

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Hegelianism: A Philosophical School of Thought

Hegelianism is a philosophical thought whose basis is the beliefs of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the famous German Idealist philosopher. This intellectual tradition began in Germany during the mid-19th Century when Hegel came up with the idea of a historically-minded Absolute Idealism, also known as Hegelian idealism. According to this, the realisation of the universe’s

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George Berkeley

Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1753) was an Enlightenment-era Irish philosopher best known for his thesis on immaterialism, a subset of Idealism. This radical kind of Empiricism, derived from his quote “to be is to be perceived,” brings him on the level with John Locke and David Hume, two other key figures in the British

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Framework for the Governance

Political ideology is a dynamic concept that combines ethical values, doctrines, belief systems, social movements, or larger groups. These provide the framework for society’s proper functioning and give a layout for social orders.  Political ideologies come under the philosophy that deals with the government, state, justice, legal rights, and amendments. It provides support to authorities

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Forms of Government

The study of basic concerns relating to the state, governance, politics, liberty, justice, and the implementation of a legal system by the authorities is known as political philosophy. It is a form of ethics that is applied to a group of people and examines how a society should be organised and how individuals should act

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