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Guilty Confession of My Passion

Love makes me insane. Sanity is only good for those who think a lot, but insanity for me is where the passion resides and is prominent over reason. Yes! I am insane, insanely in love. Yes! I am to let the whole world know. For what exists in me is only known to myself and it dies along with me as I die  too. But letting the whole world know, well not only the love is known to me and her, but the world shall triumphantly rejoice over the happy union and all they must they do is to accept, if they cannot, then the hell we care! People go stupid, even the wise becomes a complete idiot once in love. His thinking that drives him to dominate the world becomes nothing compared to the elegance of that woman in her beautiful dress. Ah Yes! Love, love, love, the black horse in lead while the white horse broke loose from the charioteer. I seem to get uncomfortable when I know I can, but I am not, being omnipresent is now being an only-present, that is I have become especially present to

Hegelian Dialectics and Eastern Thought

Introduction                 The East is full of mysteries and they have they mysterious feel because of the kind of thinking that they have. In the long run it is eve hard to understand some of their philosophical activities because it really stirs that mysterious element to the point that one is lost in thinking. But that is the point of it all is it not? To not crystallize thinking be making it come to halt to absolute conclusions but to make one continuously ponder until something dawns in him and only then to find out that it can be wrong or there is something otherwise. There is this difficulty in understanding Eastern thoughts because of the kind of understanding they use, and not only such, but also they themselves permeates with this kind of understanding.                 I am not offering a kind of answer to give a finality to direct a course in absolutizing a understanding of Eastern thought, but the point of this paper is to expose the dialectics behind Eastern thoug

Burden of Omniscience, Error and Dialectics of Knowledge

Introduction             Epistemology is one of the disciplines of philosophy that is also verily tied up with Metaphysics that remained as what Kant would say, ‘an endless battle of controversies’. [1] It was the Ancient ordeal to arrive at truth thus what we deem knowledge but the problem stems that every new epistemic theory that arises, it is always challenged thereafter. An epistemic theory thus functions as assistance or a framework wherein we can arrive at knowledge but sooner or later it will always be proven wrong or lacking. Yet even in the falsification of these epistemic theories, man has always claimed to know and for that what then is knowing? That has been one of the aporias that has never been absolutely resolved.  We cannot find a final definition of knowing and even knowledge that will cease the debate once and for all.  Therefore, epistemology is still yet a discipline that has to be settled.             But why are we driven to know things? Is it because Ari