Treatise on David Hume’s An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“When we run over libraries, persuaded of the principles, what havoc must we take? If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask - Does it contains any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can …

On Nassim Taleb: “Skin in the Game”

Skin in the game, applied, as a rule, reduces the effects of the following divergences that grew with civilization: those between action and cheap talk, consequence and intention, practice and theory, honor and reputation, expertise and charlatanism, concrete and abstract, ethical and legal, genuine and cosmetic, merchant and bureaucrat, entrepreneur and chief executive, strength and …

Treatise on Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy (Part IV)

Philosophical Skepticism“A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.”  - David Hume Skepticism is generally classified as an attitude or doubt to one dogmatic belief which involves in many principles. It is often exercised in the domain of supernatural, moral, religion, or knowledge. But very often, the skepticism always constitutes in the philosophical debate …

Treatise on Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy (Part III)

Hegel's Absolute Idealism Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and an important figure in German Idealism which subsequently influenced the work of Karl Marx's Dialectic Materialism as a basic principle idea in his book, "Das Kapital" that criticized the horrid condition of Capitalism and the class of bourgeoisie. Despite that, Hegel's Absolute Idealism, …

Treatise on Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy (Part II)

Philosophy of Logical Analysis Unless words, to some extent, had fixed meanings, discourse would be impossible. Words do change their meanings; take, for example, the word 'idea'. It is only by a considerable process of education that we learn to give this word something like the meaning which Plato gave to it. It is necessary …

Commentary on Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy (Part I)

"All definite knowledge–so I should contend–belong to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack from both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy." Thought-provoking and absolutely stunning. I got fascinated by Rusell's writing throughout his opinionated …