Vol. 1 No. 1 (December 2024)
  • Articles

    The Quest for Happiness: Medieval Perspectives for Our Future: Philosophical and Literary-Historical Investigations

    Albrecht Classen
    1-12

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    Human life makes sense only if the individual can achieve a certain degree of happiness. In order to address this topic in an insightful and effective way, this paper turns to a selection of medieval literary narratives where the focus specifically rests on happiness that an individual might achieve when the circumstances and the ideals... more

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    Sartre’s ‘Freedom’ and Society: Existentialist’s Dilemma in Naturalistic View

    Anirban Ghosh, Malabika Chakrabarti
    13-25

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    Existentialism dealt with the essence of human existence and established its priority over others where freedom of act for a conscious mind was the prime factor. Jean-Paul Sartre emphasized on such individual freedom with imposition of some liabilities over it for humanity. Sartre and other philosophers furnished different causes for such restrictions. However, the general... more

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    Justice, Democracy, and Freedom in the Middle Ages: The Fables by Marie de France

    Albrecht Classen
    26–38

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    It might be surprising, and yet it can certainly be confirmed that the Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France offered in her Fables (ca. 1190) a wide range of political, social, moral, and philosophical notions about the way people within her society should and could live together in a peaceful, just, and respectful manner. She did... more