Every philosopher who is concerned with practical rationality and the public import of philosophy assumes a politico-philosophical responsibility for his or her words, thoughts, deeds. More often than not, this function place time in history as well press current events that claim philosopher’s solicitude so to intervene at least force thought if not Yet, philosophers such Martin Heidegger Albe...

Scholars trace phenomenology as a philosophical movement back to the early twentieth century. The origins of phenomenological are mostly credited two German philosophers: “founding father” phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, and his successor, Martin Heidegger. pair were instrumental in creating framework for today’s inductive qualitative research designs. However, roots spread further than these ph...

Plato was born in Athens in 427 BC to a well established aristocratic family. His father, Ariston, could trace his lineage back to the old kings of Athens; his mother, Perictione, was a sister of Charmides and the cousin of Critas, two prominent figures in the Athenian oligarchy of 404-403 BC. Plato also had two brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, who are portrayed in his masterpiece, The Republi...

everal recent studies on Borges have explored the many philosophical motifs that he employs in his short stories.1 This philosophical reading seems to be justified by a number of Borges’ own statements about both his biography and his work. For example, in the Preface to The Gold of the Tigers (1972), he refers to his “philosophical preoccupation” which he says “has been with [him] since [his] ...