Because, the unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates (470-399 BCE)
Our knowledge of the world rests on certain settled presuppositions, commonsensical beliefs or sets of axiomatic principles that define the parameters of truth and reality and are seldom put to test themselves. Philosophy examines such complacent application of formulaic thought patterns with a view to forge a critical and nuanced understanding of “being–in-the –world”. A range of speculative insights pertaining to our composite experience constituting life are subject to deliberative refutation. The dialectical engagement that informs the philosophical method is thus more about articulating pertinent questions rather than locating misplaced solutions to the theoretical impasses that are countenanced as part of an education in humanities or for that matter in science. Predominantly iconoclastic in nature, the cogency and efficacy of language as a medium of negotiating the intellectual imbroglios is examined. The discipline thereby encompasses the logical and chronological evolution of argumentative form and content over the last two millennia in India and Europe. It involves an interface with pioneering ideas that have continued to engineer and transform the intellectual landscape across the progress of human civilizations. Long recognized as excellent preparation to develop an enquiring mind, the study of philosophy enables students to explore fundamental questions of human existence as they clarify and test their beliefs and values.
– Socrates (470-399 BCE)
Our knowledge of the world rests on certain settled presuppositions, commonsensical beliefs or sets of axiomatic principles that define the parameters of truth and reality and are seldom put to test themselves. Philosophy examines such complacent application of formulaic thought patterns with a view to forge a critical and nuanced understanding of “being–in-the –world”. A range of speculative insights pertaining to our composite experience constituting life are subject to deliberative refutation. The dialectical engagement that informs the philosophical method is thus more about articulating pertinent questions rather than locating misplaced solutions to the theoretical impasses that are countenanced as part of an education in humanities or for that matter in science. Predominantly iconoclastic in nature, the cogency and efficacy of language as a medium of negotiating the intellectual imbroglios is examined. The discipline thereby encompasses the logical and chronological evolution of argumentative form and content over the last two millennia in India and Europe. It involves an interface with pioneering ideas that have continued to engineer and transform the intellectual landscape across the progress of human civilizations. Long recognized as excellent preparation to develop an enquiring mind, the study of philosophy enables students to explore fundamental questions of human existence as they clarify and test their beliefs and values.
