Browsing: Freedom

Hicran leaves home after being forced into an engagement with Rıza, who later travels to Istanbul to find her as love, pride, freedom, and possession become intertwined.

A conceptual representation of Reason governing world history as the World Spirit advances through peoples, states, passions, and successive forms of freedom.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on the ontological system of Spinoza’s Ethics. The composition associates Spinoza with geometrical forms representing definitions, axioms, propositions, and demonstrations. It evokes the unity of substance, Deus sive Natura, thought and extension, finite modes, causal necessity, conatus, the transformation of affects, and the intellectual love of God.

An oil painting by Philippe de Champaigne portraying Saint Augustine with a quill and a flaming heart. Augustine directs his gaze towards a ray of divine light bearing the Latin word Veritas, or “truth.” The quill refers to his philosophical and theological writings, while the burning heart symbolises inward love, spiritual desire, and caritas as the movement of created existence towards God.

A philosophy essay on how atomism transforms fate from mythological destiny into physical necessity, and how Epicurus opens a space for freedom through deviation.

A psychoanalytic essay on Adler’s teleological psychology, explaining why behavior must be read not only by past causes but by future-oriented purposes.