The Bhagavad Gita, the most celebrated excerpt from the text, has inspired Bal Gangadhar Tilak to preach selfless violence as a valid means to a noble end and Mahatma Gandhi to practise non-violence ...

Philosophy is indispensable for intellecutal progress but needs to avoid the seven sins of dogmatism, arrogance, obscurity, ...

Fanon’s vision called for radical societal transformation beyond identity politics or victimhood. Liberation meant forging something new, a new humanity. He embraced a pragmatic approach to colonial ...

Despite what he says is the upending of the neoliberal capitalist order, Slavoj Žižek is determined to avoid disappointment.

For the answer, in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel gives a practical tutorial in dialectics—first offering two common but wrong answers, then the right one.

G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche stand as monumental figures in the canon of Western philosophy, often cast as ideological opposites. Hegel, the consummate systematizer, envisioned a grand ...

THE “Rechtsphilosophie” was the last of the works published by Hegel in his lifetime. Originally it consisted of the rigorous, consecutively demonstrated, chain of numbered paragraphs, which ...

In The Philosophy of History, Hegel considers four stages in world history: Oriental, Greek, Roman and German. In this scheme, he views Africa as lacking in morality, politics and religion.