STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY: A COLLECTION OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH ARTICLES

Philosophy encourages people to acquire wisdom rather than mere knowledge. It is an interconnected subject. Every subject has its foundation in philosophy. This book is a collection of 10 research papers in western and eastern philosophy. Several philosophical themes such as Metaphysics, Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Language Philosophy, etc have been discussed along with an in depth analysis. In philosophy, the knowledge gets expanded with new interpretations. This research paper collection is a new way of interpretation to the field. Both western and eastern philosophical themes have been discussed and sometimes comparatively analyzed. Each research paper is discussed in detail in order to get reader's attention to the selected philosophical themes. This book is an excellent guide for those who wish to understand philosophical knowledge. 1. A Philosophical Study on the Concept of 'Political Man' with Reference to Machiavelli's 'The Prince' 2. A Philosophical Study on the Object of Inquiry of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 3. A Critical Essay on the Main Objective of Philosophical Investigations with Reference to Wittgenstein's Quotation of Augustine's Confessions 4. A Philosophical Study on the Concept of 'Ideology' in Marxist Tradition 5. The Foundations of Chinese Thought: Taoism and Confucianism 6. A Comparative Study between the Buddhist and Immanuel Kant's Perspective towards Metaphysics 7. A Critical Study on Value-Free Judgments in Social Sciences 8. Positivism in Social Science: A Critical Analysis of Positivism with Reference to the Views of Auguste Comte and Durkheim 9. The Applicability of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Science Research 10. A Philosophical Study on the Buddhist Conception of Language and Reality