Articles with tag: philosophy

Logotherapy: Humanism In Psychiatry

Mutaal Mooquin May 21, 2008 interacts: 44

The heart has reasons that reason does not know ... A reflection on Victor Frankl’s “The Unheard Cry for Meaning”

Where is Ibn-Sina of the 21st Century?

Feroz Qutabshahi Nov 27, 2007 interacts: 178

The 800-pound gorilla in the Islamic room is not ignorance or violence but “Blind” faith in Quran and the Hadith.

Why should the West Monopolize and Hijack Philosophy?

V S Gopalakrishnan Sep 17, 2007 interacts: 7

The trouble with western books on philosophy is that they seldom cover Oriental philosophies.

The Apology of Socrates

Jabran chaudry Nov 14, 2006 interacts: 16

Socrates examined the wisdom of the best politicians, sophists, poets, and intellectuals of Greece and discovered that he was wiser than all of them, because unlike them, he admitted that he knew nothing.

Animism and Mythology

Khuram Rafique Nov 11, 2006 interacts: 55

A complete uneducated human mind, just like that of a small child, tends to believe that external world events are dependents on one’s own feelings and emotions. Through out early history to even the present modern times, humans have always tried to

A Free Being

M K Afzal Jul 17, 2006 interacts: 10

I moved out. For once, I felt that I had broken away from the system. A system which I loved but one that never gave me the breathing space I’d always craved for...

The Impact of the Greek Philosophers on Modern Education

zainab siddique Jul 11, 2005 interacts: 20

The student is no more considered to be having an empty mind that has to be filled in with knowledge by the teacher. The individuals are assigned tasks keeping in mind their individual differences...

The world of the Wise Lord

Nazar Khan Feb 8, 2005 interacts: 169

The other ancient philosophy emanated from Zoroastrianism which explained that a man’s life is a struggle between the good and the evil. Its monotheistic concept included a satan, a messiah, death, resurrection, day of judgment, heaven and hell.

A Critique of Philosophical Thought in Pakistan

Mohammad Gill Feb 1, 2005 interacts: 57

The worst non-filthy curse in our day-to-day vocabulary is the word ’atheist’. In Urdu, we use ’dahriya’ and ’zindique’ for it. We condemn atheism without....

Rage Against the Dying of the Light

Revathy Gopal Dec 15, 2004 interacts: 34

Do we actually possess a soul? Are we actually being judged at every second for our thoughts and words and actions?

The Nature of Time

Jahangeer Dec 8, 2004 interacts: 22

We ask the question what is time? as if we thought that the word time referred to some independent entity or dimension of nature that could be properly disclosed or described if we tried hard enough...

Destination Unknown

Tauheed Ahmed Dec 1, 2004 interacts: 34

The hairy ape had been walking on all fours for hours. He got tired of seeing nothing but a few feet of ground around him. So, he did the obvious thing. He stood up on two legs.

Our Minds Our Existance

Naved Haqqi Nov 27, 2004 interacts: 13

If our existance is solely dependent on our ability to use our minds, and be able to reap the benefits or suffer the consequences, then, why is God there, at all?

God-shaped Hole: Contemporary Relevance of the Spiritual

Farrukh Khan Nov 18, 2004 interacts: 9

From a world of certainty and solace provided by God– in the next world if not this one– the 19th century sciences, philosophy and political ideology plunged humanity into a crisis of faith and culture that has continued into the present times

Bulleh Shah

Umair Raja Sep 12, 2004 interacts: 67

A man, whose writings - barely understood, even by those who speak his language - contain, amongst them, such enlightening and powerful Sufianic philosophies that even Smith, Voltaire, Rosseau, Kant et. al. would have been proud to claim them, as their ow

Of Eros and Erosion

Jamal Rana Sep 8, 2004 interacts: 14

Jelaluddine Rumi, the 13th century Muslim poet and mystic wrote, “Love is reckless, risks everything and asks for nothing, having died to self interest”.

The Village: Philosophical Derivatives of the Movie

Adeel Husain Aug 27, 2004 interacts: 2

Our true demons are perhaps within us. They are fed by our continual unwillingness and resulting inability to acknowledge the natural existence of our fears, let alone face them.

Square Pegs in Round Holes

Mohammad Gill Aug 18, 2003 interacts: 25

I had the chance of cursorily looking at Rasheed Talib’s recent post on Chowk, “My Perspective on Islam”, and was attracted to find out more about him. He had also previously posted another article on Islam with a title of “Islam i

Two Poems

Godot Aug 10, 2003 interacts: 35

short poems

This Beloved Arab Colony

Haroon Moghul Jun 20, 2003 interacts: 318

Often times, arguments and ideas are no more than recycled sloganeering, little sober effort in evidence. For this reason, the narrower sects of Islam upset me. But much sadder still are the Muslim world’s Euromaniacs, those who forthright criticize

The Metaphysics of Religion

Mohammad Gill Apr 12, 2003 interacts: 16

Much of the metaphysics appears to be meaningless to a materialisitic way of thinking.

Islam in Crisis (Part2)

Rasheed Talib Feb 19, 2003 interacts: 115

one must start by asking a hitherto unasked question, namely, about the nature and character of the Quran

Kaleidoscope of Human Life

Mohammad Gill Feb 10, 2003 interacts: 6

The greatest creation of human minds is the ''words''......

Once Upon A Time: When The World Spoke Arabic

Yaqoob Bangash Jan 26, 2003 interacts: 223

A survey of the Golden Period of Islamic Civilization, during the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates

Skeptical And Counter-Skeptical Trends In Medieval Islam

Mohammad Gill Nov 28, 2002 interacts: 112

There are hundreds of religions in the world, each one of them claiming to be the only true religion

Intellectual Diversity of Human Thought

Mohammad Gill Nov 8, 2002 interacts: 26

Man is a rational animal and is ensnared in his own web.

Promises of A Brave New World

Sanjay K Bavikatte Sep 16, 2002 interacts: 50

A profound question that confronts religious thought in general is whether or not the idea of 'change' may be reconciled with the 'eternal' and 'perennial' truth that religion is expected to convene. And if at all so, then to what extent.