Plato’s Republic (Education)

Education is very important to us, as the Tabula Rasa of john locke, when we are born to this world the we have nothing but a void paper, nothing but as we go on, we experienced something, we experienced those our mind filled with words in a paper. Related to education we are incapable to [...]

The Will to Believe

People have long been interested in the circumstances under which it is appropriate to believe.  Often, the source of this interest is the desire to believe something for which one has insufficient evidence.
A hypothesis is a proposition, or idea, thats presented to us as a possible belief. A live hypothesis is a proposition w/c [...]

Confucius and Confucianism

Confucius (K’ung Fu-tzu) was born of a rather impoverished family of noble descent in the state of Lu (in modern Shantung). He quickly achieved a reputation for scholarship and learning. During his life, he witnessed the disintegration of unified imperial rule. He was a great admirer of the Duke of Zhou, and sought to convince [...]

St. Augustine’s Confessions

Introduction
LIKE A COLOSSUS BESTRIDING TWO WORLDS, Augustine stands as the last patristic and the first medieval father of Western Christianity. He gathered together and conserved all the main motifs of Latin Christianity from Tertullian to Ambrose; he appropriated the heritage of Nicene orthodoxy; he was a Chalcedonian before Chalcedon — and he drew all this [...]

Jacques Derrida Who Is He? (Including the Deconstruction Principle)

BODY:
Jacques Derrida has death on his mind. He often does. But the death in question at this moment is one that holds little terror for him: the reported death of deconstruction — the “theory” or “method” (he prefers “experience”) to which Derrida gave birth.
“The structure of the statement ‘It is dead’ is an [...]