Fredrich Nietzsche’s 1873 manuscript “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” opens with the following scene. Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever little animals invented clever words, like truth and… Read More Pharisee among the Philosophers
Voltaire, a philosopher of the French enlightenment, famously said, “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”. Voltaire’s point was that the quality of an eon is defined by the quality of the question asked. He emphasised that the quality of the question determines the quality of the answer we get. Good… Read More A Curious Faith
Sigmund Freud is widely considered as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud passionately probed the role of religion and its place in the production of culture. His theory of psychoanalysis has had an immense impact on modern Western culture. Acknowledging Freud’s enormous influence, Paul Ricoeur considers him as “one of the great atheists of… Read More Freud on Religion; in the beginning was the murder
