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Freedom and Perfectibility in the Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By Abraham Keita- Student, Yale University What is freedom, or stated more precisely, what does it mean to be free or have free will? Is freedom a natural condition of the individual? Does individual freedom find legitimacy and full expression in political or civil society, or does this society hinder it? In an attempt…
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We Are Always Going Through Unconscious Processes: Freud’s Theory of the Unconscious
I shall be concerned with the question of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis. The theory of the unconscious continues to hold center stage in psychoanalysis. Understanding and explaining the workings, or more precisely the internal happenings of the unconscious is the preoccupation of nearly all of Freud’s writings. It seems that the concept of the…
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Can We Know the Truth?: St. Augustine, Sextus Empiricus, and Skepticism
Skepticism, both a philosophy and movement, questions and doubts the certainty of knowledge. It attempts to dismantle the very foundation of truth or anything that can be said to be objectively true. Beginning with the ancient Greek philosopher Pyrrho, skepticism seeks to dismiss any claim to absolute truth, insisting that beliefs are mere opinions that…
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