July 15, 2025
The word cult comes from the Latin colere, meaning to cultivate—a root it shares with words like culture and agriculture. It originally referred to tending, especially in the sense of worship, as in taking care of the gods. Up until the 19th century, cult carried no negative associations. It was commonly used to describe religious [...]April 18, 2022
In recent years, philosophy has become more popular as a school subject because of its usefulness for teaching logic and reasoning. In some cases, the subject of philosophy has become almost completely reduced to the sole purpose of ‘critical thinking’. Which is quite funny because, apparently (according to AskPhilosophy), philosophy had previously been avoided in [...]August 26, 2014
Freedom is a concept that has always preoccupied mankind. We all want to be free; but free from what? Do we really know what kind of freedom we are looking for or how we can reach that freedom? We are going to use philosophy to investigate and to understand freedom with an emphasis on inner [...]