Now it is considered by the scholars about the authorship of Piers Plowman was Willielmus de Langland (William Langland). In this essay we will try to interpret this great masterwork of literature. For explaining why and how the work uses a great number of allegorical elements, we have to know
Read MoreBy: Francis Bacon DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do
A Reconciliatory Reading of Al-Ghazal and Ibn Rushd By: Mohammad Mahdi The Idea of God and Thinkers in the Past: The word that first existed was of God. And God existed besides
By: Bertrand Russell CHAPTER I IS there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? This question, which at first sight might not seem
By: A.C. Grayling Jean-Paul Sartre lived a very public life, and serves as a paradigm of the engage intellectual. His talents were wide ranging: he wrote novels, plays, biography and criticism as
A Man Oh Socrates! Thou must listen to this poor wretch for, he now no more wants to live. Life is ill and meaningless for him. Then why not, is not ceasing
By: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) RELIGION being the chief band of human society, it is a happy thing, when itself is well contained within the true band of unity. The quarrels, and divisions
By: Francis Bacon MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation
By: The Divine Plato Timaeus. How thankful I am, Socrates, that I have arrived at last, and, like a weary traveller after a long journey, may be at rest! And I pray the being who
By: A.C. Grayling One sure way to live in philosophical memory is to issue striking remarks that are obscure or ambiguous – or better still a mixture of both. Heraclitus is an
What is God and why do we need to ask this question? Perhaps this problem hunts us from the very beginning but still, we have no such certain answer.