Can We—and Should We—eliminate Suffering?
Before the advent of anaesthesia, surgery was an experience of unimaginable agony. It is difficult to grasp the relief people must have felt when painless surgical procedures were introduced in…
Aristotle on forming Friendship
Aristotle categorizes friendship into three distinct types in the Nicomachean Ethics. First, friendship of utility arises when people remain on cordial terms because each benefits from the other in some…
An Essay on Nothing
In philosophy, there is a great emphasis on what exists. This branch is called ontology, the study of being. What is far less examined, however, is what does not exist.…
Philosopher of pride
Bernard Mandeville: Pride, Vice, and the Foundations of Society Bernard Mandeville’s social philosophy challenges the traditional belief that societies are built on moral virtue. In The Fable of the Bees,…
Current Affairs 22 Dec 2025
1) President Grants Assent to Rural Jobs Bill The President has given assent to the Rural Jobs Bill, marking a major step towards strengthening employment opportunities in rural India. The…
Learn to be alone
Before we can truly be with others, we must first learn how to be alone. It is a great misfortune to lose the capacity to be alone with oneself. In…
Learning to not-know
Even though Ramesh has not worked for more than a decade as a physician, receiving phone calls at 3 a.m. from patients is common. “I am having chest pain,” they…
Where Pain lives
Fixing back pain is possible only when patients understand how much of it is produced by the brain, not just the spine. For patient after patient seeking relief, the journey…