BEING AND BECOMING

Trust is the bedrock for strong relations and stable society, and the culture of suspicion does not allow the cementing of trust. The project of enlightenment as expounded by Immanuel Kant in 1784 was meant to question the lazy slumber from which humanity suffers, therefore, remains under the tutelage or dependence over others. He was exemplifying a culture of questioning and the spirit of inquiry to improve the arts, sciences, morals, and politics but not at the quest of ravishing the trust. In fact, he was against the dogmatic belief which belies the spirit of critical inquiry. Mahatma Gandhi, to the contrary, believed that criticism breeds violence, therefore, it is better to constantly experiment one's moral conviction about the truth and to bring it into the practice. Others may follow the such practices if such actions are morally worthy to be followed. These two methods of life appear to be contradictory, which are often rephrased into a binary of faith versus suspicion, or ...

Trust the unknown path unfolding within you Every step is destiny Every breath is life Arrival is a mistake Departure is a myth Path is moving like time It moves but go nowhere Its rhythmic dance creates and engulfs Its own progeny  It has no beginning and no end Time is Life It was and it will be forever We are the stream flowing like rivers We are the ocean and its sublime heart Wonder! Wonder! Wonder!  O my beloved mind The beauty of the world And Its chaotic harmony  Witness O mind the ever present eternity In the movement of breath And the shifting clouds of thoughts

I Introduction This blog explores the foundational concepts of Krishnachandra Bhattacharya’s seminal work, The Subject as Freedom. It examines Bhattacharya’s unique phenomenological and metaphysical approach to subjectivity, defined primarily as the progressive realization of freedom from the "object." By analyzing the stages of subjectivity, bodily, psychic, and spiritual, the blog elucidates how the subject moves from identification with the external world to the pure self-evidence of the "I." The study highlights the distinction between meant and unmeant contents, the role of introspection as a knowing function, and the ultimate realization of the subject as absolute freedom. II The Fundamental Distinction: Subject-Object In Bhattacharya’s philosophy, the starting point of inquiry is the distinction between the "object" and the "subject". The object is defined as that which is "meant," encompassing the contents of sense-perception an...

I  Introduction In the opening pages of his magnum opus, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger resurrects a question he argues has been buried for millennia, framing his entire project with an epigraph from Plato’s Sophist: “For manifestly you have long been aware of what you mean when you use the expression ‘being’. We, however, who used to think we understood it, have now become perplexed.” This is no mere academic exercise but a deliberate reawakening of what Heidegger argues is the most fundamental and, paradoxically, the most forgotten question in the history of Western thought. For Heidegger, a pervasive “forgetfulness of Being” has characterized philosophy since antiquity, where the initial, vibrant inquiry into what it means “to be” solidified into a series of unexamined dogmas. The question was not answered and then set aside; rather, it fell into obscurity, concealed by the very traditions that were supposed to preserve it. This blog argues that Heidegger's critical "dest...