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By Wael Al-Mahdi (2011) Why does philosophy appear so difficult? I think one of the biggest reasons is that it’s not written for clarity. Either the author is adopting an outdated style or he’s intentionally complicating a relatively simple concept because people generally dismiss simple concepts. Apparently many philosophers had the feeling, be it conscious [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra (or Thus spake Zarathustra according to the older, and more arcane sounding, title) is an ocean of deep thoughts and rare feelings. Pictorially, it is a high mountain, with a chilly, rarified atmosphere, as Nietzsche himself intimated: “the air of my writings knows that it is an air of the heights, a [...]
In a business course I took recently, our septuagenarian professor decided to give us a take home exam. He probably got more than he bargained for, because afterwards there was a queue of students in front of his office inquiring about their grades. I didn’t get the grade I’d hoped for, but what really irked me was that he [...]
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