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The phenomenon known as the Renaissance is one of the standard stops on any tour through the history of Western culture. It encompasses a roughly 300 year period in Europe, where architects, poets and philosophers reconnected with the style and ambitions of ancient Greek and Roman civilization. The reasons for studyingthe Renaissance nowadays are often… Continue reading History of ideas – the Renaissance

Athens, 2400 years ago. It’s a compact place:only about a quarter of a million people live here. There are fine baths, theatres, temples,shopping arcades and gymnasiums It’s warm for more than half the year. This is also home to the world’s first true– and probably greatest – philosopher: Plato Born into a prominent and wealthy… Continue reading Philosophy – plato

Jean-Paul Sartre made thinking and philosophyglamorous. He was born in Paris in 1905. His father,a navy captain, died when he was a baby – and he grew up extremely close to his mother untilshe remarried, much to his regret, when he was twelve. Sartre spent most of his life in Paris, wherehe often went to… Continue reading Philosophy – sartre

François-Marie Arouet was born in Paris in 1694 His father, a well-established lawyer, sent him to the best school in the capital, and by all accounts, he was a brilliant student. The young Arouet, decided at an early age to make his name as a writer, or rather to remake his name, as the first… Continue reading Literature – Voltaire

René Descartes was a French 17th century philosopher, famous above all for saying ‘I think therefore I am’, but worthy of our for many reasons beyond this. What makes him stand out is that he was a fierce rationalist. In an age when many philosophers still backed up their arguments with appeals to God, Descartes… Continue reading Philosophy – rene descartes

Immanuel Kant is a philosopher who tried to call work out how human beings could be good and kind outside of the exaltation s and blandishments of traditional religions. He was born in1724, in the Baltic city of König sberg, which at that time was part of Prussia and now belongs to Russia, renamed Kaliningrad.… Continue reading Philosophy : imamanunel kant

The story of the Buddha’s life, like allof Buddhism, is a story about confronting suffering. He was born between the sixth and fourth centuryB.C., the son of a wealthy king in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal. It was prophesied that the young Buddha — thencalled Siddhartha Gautama — would either become the emperor of India… Continue reading Eastern philosophy – the buddha

Most people agree that we need to improve our economic system somehow. Yet we’re also often keen to dismiss the ideas of capitalism’smost famous and ambitious critic, Karl Marx. This isn’t very surprising. In practice, his political and economic ideas have been used to design disastrously planned economies and nasty dictatorships. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t reject… Continue reading Political theory – Karl Marx

Hello, friends! British ruled India for more than 200 years. A question that comes to my mind, again and again, it matters a lot to remain in a country for 200 years. Did it not happen that some Britishers mingled with the locals and married them? Because this happened a lot during the Mughals. Every… Continue reading The mystery Anglo| indias

Adam Smith is our guide to perhaps the most pressing dilemma of our time: how to make a capitalist economy more humane and more meaningful. He was born in Scotland in Kirkcaldy – samall manufacturing town – near Edinburgh in 1723. He was a hard working student and very close to his mother. He then… Continue reading Political theory – adam smith