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Tag: truth

  • Freedom and Structure: Sartre’s Praxis as a Critique of Foucault’s Theory of Discourse

    Freedom and Structure: Sartre’s Praxis as a Critique of Foucault’s Theory of Discourse

    1. Introduction This essay compares and contrasts Foucault’s and Sartre’s approaches to understanding history, firstly by examining Foucault’s theory of discourse in his The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) and Sartre’s concept of individual praxis from his Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960). While Sartre’s Critique was not a response to Foucault’s philosophy, as it was published almost a decade prior to Foucault’s Archaeology,…

  • Breath by Breath

    Breath by Breath

    By Dicson Candra Wijaya25 February, 2023 Being in the world, this world, is an undeniable reality for each and every one of us. For without it, I wouldn’t be writing; nor you, reading; or anybody else who potentially comes across this essay (no matter how remotely). Each of us living, having lived; breathing, having breathed.…

  • Philosophical Traditions of the East

    Philosophical Traditions of the East

    Truth be told, I had planned to write about the major differences between Eastern and Western philosophy until I realised from my own reading of Indian philosophy and existentialism that there are no unifying essences in either case (Eastern or Western). Of course, there have always been major differences in characteristics between Eastern and Western…