Deconstructing liberalism on December 12, 2018The history of liberalism has been complicated because of the broader political discourse since its birth in the late seventeenth century. Since then the very first idea of liberal doctrine stressed the values of individualism, that opened the new perspective obliging the State to ensure the rights of individual. Likewise, the philosophy of liberalism came […]
On Nietzsche’s moral guilt on December 7, 2018In 1912, the Russian Avant Garde poet, Velimir Khlebnikov, listed the dates for the collapse of great empires, when he was asked: Do you believe that our empire will be lost in 1917? Asked Viktor Shklovsky, a literary Soviet critic. Khlebnikov replied: You are the first person who understood me. His predictions dragged a lot […]
Syria awaits transition but at what cost? on November 26, 2018It has been seven years, Syria has been facing a furious civil war that has destroyed the large part of the country killing more than 500,000 people and displacing approximately six million people, which fled to neighboring countries and abroad as a refugee. According to United Nation, more than six and half million people are […]
Fredrich Nietzsche’s ‘Birth of Tragedy’ on November 23, 2018Fredrich Nietzsche is one of the most despised philosophers in European philosophical discourse because of his vicious intellectual attack on European religion and morality. What was Nietzsche’s tragedy? — it was the crudeness that ensued in Europe due to the Franco-Prussian war and the battles that were being waged in the European continent in the […]
Branding Islam: The birth of Islamic Laissez-Faire on November 18, 2018Since the dawn of political Islam in the 20th century, a new political confrontation came into the colonial discourse along with other revolutionary ideologies. Perhaps, 20th century can be regarded as the most subjective epoch of human history because the civilizations had fought two great wars in the name of human realm. But the with […]
Kantian political tradition on November 16, 2018Since the dawn of liberalism in late 17th century, it played a great role in the transformation of socio-political aspects of human civilization. The western countries have benefited a lot from the revolutionary ideals of liberalism. For instance, the industrial revolution of the 18th century was the turning point in socio-economic history of Europe. The […]
On Kantian political tradition on November 14, 2018Since the dawn of liberalism in the late 17th century, it has played a great role in the transformation of socio-political aspects of human civilization. The western countries have had benefited a lot from the revolutionary ideals of liberalism. For instance, the industrial revolution of the 18th century was the turning point in socio-economic history […]
The crackpot Populism of Matteo Salvini on November 10, 2018It is believed that Julius Caesar was of divine descend because Venus, the goddess of love, had married a trojan prince, who later became the mother of legendary founder of the Julian family. Julius first married with Cinna, the daughter of the powerful opposition faction, headed by Marius, the staunch opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla […]
The true story of Globalisation on October 30, 2018The book ‘The War for wealth: the true story of Globalization’ authored by Gabor Steingart gives a clear insight about the effects of globalization on the US economy and Chinese firms that benefited from the US multinationals at a larger scale in both service and manufacturing industries in terms of domestic share in jobs and […]
Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon and anti-colonial struggle on October 26, 2018Jean-Paul Sartre through his writings had elaborately explained the unbridgeable divide between postcolonial and anti-colonial struggle. But he presented a different nature of post-colonial theory and was extensively concerned with the colonial and third world issues since 1948. He also well-defined colonial violence in his famous work: “The Critique of Dialectical Reason” and became one […]