Category: Culture

• World Philosophy Day: Existentialism

  

  What gives your life meaning? God? Money? Love? Work? Shopping? Jujitsu? Donuts? You must have a personal sense of purpose in your life. A sense of meaning is what we all crave, whether you consciously realize it or not. I believe it’s a personal responsibility to try to understand how and why we should make…

  Faizul H. Ibrahim

  18/11/2017

  Culture, Philosophy

  Albert Camus, Aristotle, Existentialism, Franz Kafka, Ideas, Jean-Paul Sartre, Life, Philosophy, Søren Kierkegaard, Thoughts, World Philosophy Day

• Travel Journal: Early Days in Sukasaba

  

  14th October 2013 10:25PM (Indonesian Time) Sukasaba, Indonesia Tonight is the night I start a travel journal. I’ve been contemplating this for a while now especially since I’ve been in Indonesia for the last 2 weeks or so. I can’t point to the sole reason why I’m starting one. However, one of the reasons would…

  Faizul H. Ibrahim

  17/04/2016

  Culture, Peace Building, Travel Journal

  Indonesia, journal, kampung, rural, society, travel, village

• Our Moral Compass

  

  What guides our moral compass?  What makes us so sure that something is morally wrong or right? Morality is what we are supposed to do; what we are ought to do. In religious cultures, holy books and scriptures are filled with moral rules on how we’re supposed to act to align yourself with God. The Quran forbids…

  Faizul H. Ibrahim

  07/11/2014

  Culture, Philosophy

  Abraham Lincoln, David Humes, Dracula, Emotions, Glaucon, Love, Minions, Moral Compass, Moral Rule, Morality, Napoleon Bonaparte, Noam Chomsky, Passion, Patriotism, Philosophy, politics, Reality, religion, Socrates, State, Tyrannosaurus, United States, Vietnam, Virtue