Cash-cropping and Economic Growth in Africa
For many African states, cash cropping is a major livelihood and prime source of income. Despite this importance, the industry has not achieved long...
Frankenstein: Science, Nature and Genesis
Frankenstein (1818) is a multi-genre novel by Mary Shelley (1797-1851). It contains themes of Gothic and science fiction, among others. This essay will be...
Social Isolation and Evil in Camus’ The Plague
The Plague (Originally called: La Peste) was written by Albert Camus (1913-1960) and originally published in 1947. The story, written as a chronicle by...
Imperial Fatigue and the Disruption of African Colonialism during WW1
Abstract
Despite British and European colonialism only truly dissipating after World War 2, the Great War did see European colonialism and empire weaken dramatically on...
Socrates on the Soul
In Plato’s Phaedo, Socrates sets out a number of arguments to prove the immortality of the soul. One of these, which many of the...
Pastoral Genocide: An Evaluation of Adhikari’s Arguments
Mohamed Adhikari makes the case that settlers practicing pastoral farming had a unique predisposition to commit genocide on indigenous populations – specifically, indigenous hunter-gatherer...
Sen’s Approach to the Bengali Famine of 1943
This article came to my attention years later (2022) and successfully debunks Sen's methodology by refuting his statistics. Sen uses forecasts, not actual production...
Plato’s Condemnation of Rhetoric in Gorgias
Plato in his Gorgias seeks to accomplish multiple tasks. This essay will be focusing on the first, that being the condemnation of rhetoric and...
Machiavelli’s The Prince Today
Machiavelli’s The Prince has risen to become one of history’s most controversial books. Its contents are, no doubt, seen as immoral to our modern...
Language as a Tool: Analysing the Pirahã
Language is a tool. Like all tools, it exists to solve a problem. Philosophy is also a tool, aimed at identifying and, hopefully, elucidating...
