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The Last days of Socrates

The last days of Socrates written by Plato in 403 BC can be considered as an introduction to philosophy. To me, philosophy is an art of thinking. Philosophy deals with metaphysical (beyond physical world) concepts like Truth, Soul, virtues, holiness, morality, and many more. Mainly Philosophy can help deal with the problems of our life. It is like a tool that can make our lives healthy, and our minds strong. Moreover, it can also give the direction in our life. I’m started reading philosophy and this was the first book. The book is in the form of dialogues between Socrates and others there are a total of four dialogues in the book. First, let’s talk about Socrates. Socrates lives in Athens in Greece. Socrates is known to be the first philosopher which laid the foundation, but his existence is debatable and still is because Socrates never wrote anything as he believed philosophy is not about sitting down and writing but engaging in conversations with others. He often goes to people wh...

Brave new world

In this blog ill give my thoughts about brave new world dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley. These are my views and personnel opinions. Spoiler alert for those who want to read the novel. Brave new world by Aldous Huxley is the classic dystopia disguised as utopia. Everyone is happy, there is cleanliness everywhere and no illness. There are no wars, and society has achieved stability and peace. We might think what’s wrong with that, the important thing is how they achieve this peace. In the novel society is called World state, where there are predetermined class system Alphas, betas, gammas, and epsilons. Humans are not born anymore rather they are made in factories and there their cast is decided, and then they are conditioned appropriately to their cast. Alphas are made strong, curious, physically fit. Betas are conditioned to serve alphas and obey them. Gammas are there to help with everyday needs and serve the betas and alphas and finally, epsilons are workers. The important thing i...

Homo Sapiens book review

  In the previous blog From the very beginnings , we talked about who we are and how we evolved from the Apes and settled in different parts of the earth. This book was written by Yuval Noah Harari is the best book to know about Human history as a species, you can say if an alien visited the Earth this book is enough to know about Humankind and their horrors. From stone age to the modern era how we transformed from hunters and gatherers to Farmers to modern workers. How from small groups to villages to societies we populated the Earth. How we developed small religious groups and set out to spread our religion across the world and conquered it. This Book takes a neutral point and describes the history. From this point, history looks very disturbing. It pops our bubble of ignorance to the damage that we as a species have caused to nature. The book describes human development or rather say the transition from one state to another in three revolutions. I’ll give a brief Idea about ea...