If you ask me what ‘Knowledge’ I would reply ‘I do not know’. For each it implies something drastically different. Having studied PHILOSOPHY at the St Stephen’s College New Delhi under the tutelage great philosopher teachers like Prof. R.K Gupta, Prof. Ashok Vohra, Prof. Vijay Thanka, I can at most venture to state what the […]
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SOCRATES – AN EMBODIMENT OF FOOLISHNESS
Any non-student of philosophy will know the names of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle etc. It is said Plato was a student of Socrates, recorded faithfully the teachings of Socrates. We are talking of events which took place some 2500 years ago! Socrates was a wise man and learned philosopher. As per the traditions and practices of […]
Ship of Theseus
Theseus was the mythical Greek founder king of Athens. The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment of ancient philosophers like Heraclitus, Plato etc., going back to 500 – 400 BC. This experiment is about whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. “As the planks of […]
