BEING AND BECOMING

Jonathan Sumption in his lecture on Law's Expanding Empire questions the role of a judge to decide the questions of faith, ethics, aesthetics, taste, and politics, and asked them to restrict themselves as a prophet of law and legality. Does it mean that there is a decline of other's authorities? And the questions that may be decided by politics or social agreement are decided by a few judges. Why law is treated as transcendental-problem solver, as if, law is a solution to every problem? Take for an example, love and affection could not be generated by law, neither law could teach the people to be compassionate towards every other creature of the planet. Legalism, a concept developed by Judith N. Shklar, raised the question of gulf between law and poltics or law and morality and advocated to see law in a holistic way rather than a rationalized tool developed by positivists in the modern world. In spite of her objection, there is certain truth in conceiving the idea that there ar...

Freedom is the essence of human being, devoid of it, human species is reduced to mere chattel, governed by causality or contingency of existence. Out of heteronomy or hypothetical imperative, every animal, plant, or even human being lives their life. Every being is subjected to law of nature; each living creature is affected by hunger, thirst, lust, desire, greed, fear, hope, anxiety, expectation, and mentality to acquire more goods. What makes a human not merely a subject of contingency instead of capacity to transcend the limitation of heternomy argued German philosopher Immanuel Kant. He argued that the human being has pure practical reasoning which may be used to derive the categorical imperatives (morally-binding duties). This capacity is unique in the human being in the sense that a person is though subjected to causality of life, natural or social; one is tempted to use hypothetical moral reasoning to be a useful social animal. But being consequentialist may be useful in many se...

पुरस्कार से पुरस्कृत  तिरस्कार से लज्जित जो जीता वो हारा जो पाया वो खोया जो जमा किया वो धूमिल हुआ जिसे खरीदा वो फिरसे बिक गया जिसे संवारा वो फिरसे बिगड़ गया एक पक्ष कहाँ है? वो अस्तित्व कहाँ है? यहाँ तो सिर्फ बदलाव है।

         Picture's Source: Google Books "War is the politics by other means", wrote Clausewitz. Michel Foucault extended this hypothesis when he suggested "Politics is the war by other means". In these two conjectural statements one fact is common, i.e. politics and war are inseparable. Michel Foucault delivered eleven lectures in 1976 at the College de France, which were published titled "Society must be Defended", reflected upon the nature of war and its role in defining politics and public right. Unconventionally, since he is known for, Michel Foucault examined the motive of the masters of order, such as, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, and their concept of Sovereignty, its limited or unlimited authorities, and connected this theme to the necessity arose in Europe to establish a philosophical/juridical concept of sovereignty instead of historical/political one. Historically, war has been an instrument to establish sovereignty; once the order is establi...

Miseries, confusions, and depression; You will find out many of its merchants; But the one, who dooms in such anguish; But the one, who likes to have it more; Is none other than our own ever-changing fragile mind. What if we appreciate what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen; What if we remain like a child; A passionate yes-sayer; And ready to accept what is; Miseries, confusions, and depression; Are never a guest to reckon with. Our attitude towards the events; Is experience; Our feelings and emotions serve our passions; Which poverty is more harmful; If it's not a 'poverty of mind'? Affirm the passionate cries; Rise above the 'fear of unknown'; And listen our own heart; And mind will be its servant forever.

सपनों से हकीकत तक कल्पनाओं से गढ़ी गई हर एक गाँठ में उसका ही बसेरा रहता है जिसे हम मन कहा करते हैं इसके कल्पनाओं की रस्सी से हमने ना जाने कितने आशियाना बनाए-गिराए उन पुराने पत्थरों के बंजारेपन से आज भी कोई बच्चा आवाज देता है उसे भी जवान होने का शौक था कभी पर वो भूल जाता है शायद कि हर-एक सपने समय के आगोश में बूढ़े हो जाते हैं फिर भला वो पेड़  जिसे कभी हम अपने हाथों से सींचा करते थे और एक समय वो मेरा हमसाया हुआ करता था पर आज की मदमस्त आँधी ने उसे झकझोर के रख दिया है ये सच है कि सपने देखने की हिम्मत होनी चाहिए साकार होने में ज्यादा वक़्त नहीं लगता ये और बात है की जब वो पूरा होता है तब तक सपने देखने वाला ही बदल जाता है

Albert Einstein and Arthur Eddington, two scientists of different nationalities, worked separately but for the sake of truth amidst struggle for claiming the superiority among the nations in the first World War. Two nations, Britain and Germany, were treating each-other like sworn enemies, fighting war without having any cause whatsoever to further the interest of humanity, and in that mad struggle, most of the scientists of both the nations were collaborating in developing the weapons of mass destruction as well as genocide. In that very critical condition, duo worked out diligently and proved sir Isaac Newton's theory of Gravity wrong. Einstein's General theory of relativity was theoretically a masterpiece, though logically correct and imaginatively wonderful, but without proof, no one was ready to accept it, especially, when science was also being visualized as per the national boundaries. In such a testing time, Arthur Eddington, from Cambridge University, went to Africa to...