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Plato’s ‘Republic’; with its historical background
Whilst most of world leaders and politicians today approve democracy as the best form of political governance, nonetheless, this political system has never been immune to criticism as well. One of the most famous, and probably the strongest such criticisms, … Continue reading
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Soeren Kierkegaard’s pseudonyms
Soeren Kierkegaard is well known for his use of several pseudonyms for publishing philosophical works. For example, when one of his famous works The Concept of Anxiety was originally published in 1844, its official title was printed in the following … Continue reading
Ontological difference ‘in the air’… (?)
Gilles Deleuze, a famous French modern thinker, argues in his Difference and Repetition (Preface to the Original Edition, translated by Paul Patton, Columbia University Press, New York, 1994, p.5), ‘The subject dealt with here is manifestly in the air. The … Continue reading
Nature v.s. Society in Hobbes and Nietzsche
Thomas Hobbes, in his book entitled Of Man, one of four books that consist the entire work titled Leviathan, defines the condition of Nature in his famous term, ‘war of every one against every one’ (Macpherson, 1985, p. 185: spelling … Continue reading
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Christian Rosencreutz
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz: Anno 1459 could be counted as one of seven wonders in the world of literature. This book was first published in 1616 in Strasbourg, and was attributed its authorship to Johann Valentin Andreae, a … Continue reading
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Wodan, an ancient god in the German mythology
Wodan (also known as Woden or Wotan to the Saxons and Odin to the Norse) is one of important gods in the ancient Germanic mythology. It is said that Wodan was quite popular among the noble class as the chief … Continue reading
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Paracelsus performing the experiment of Palengenesis
Paracelsus (1493-1541) is one of the most influential, but also mysterious, philosophers, thinkers and medical researchers in the sixteenth century. There survived several portraits of him and there are many opportunity for anyone to come across with them being printed … Continue reading
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The Earth created by the God in Genesis chapter 1
The Holy Bible explains how the world was created by the God, in the very beginning of the book of Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament. It begins as following, ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and … Continue reading
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