Essays on Aphorisms

1984 assignment 1984 is the classic novel where power dominates and where the aphorisms which are present permeate the text. The book’s opening where Winston Smith goes into his squalid apartment conveys the depressive atmosphere which also permeates Smith’s thinking. The aphorisms commence from the very beginning since we have parallels with the life of the poor and those in justices which are part and parcel of society and intrinsic to the suffering of those who are at a disadvantage. War is an important aspect of everything and this is no less present in 1984. The ...

In order to have earned the occasional titles of “father of empiricism” or “father of experimental philosophy,” Sir Francis Bacon certainly had to make noteworthy and enduring contributions to scientific thought. His inventions are not drawn out on paper with schematics and did not directly address human plant anatomy, the cosmos or create a steam-powered machine, but are instead philosophical in nature, allowing perhaps an even greater and more impactful and broad-reaching legacy in virtually every field of science, technology and related subjects. Francis Bacon was born in 1561 in London into an educated family. He was the second ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century. His philosophy influenced not only the various sections of philosophical knowledge, thereby extending its reach and scope, but also the development of such sciences as logic, mathematics, linguistics, the list of which is not complete. Moreover, if the twentieth century largely passed under the sign of the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, in Wittgenstein's philosophy this century got its most profound understanding. It is all the more ironic that the philosopher did not leave a special essay on social philosophy and philosophy of history. ...