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Why study Philosophy

Philosophy liberated the world from the overloaded superstitions and dogmatic beliefs. It was in Greek where a group of people started thinking rationally, critically and morally. Therefore, Greek represents the beginning of philosophy and development of human thought with the urge, for the search of truth and inquiry, into the nature of things that aroused in a rationalist movement. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are the best examples in the philosophical world whose writings have shaped human thought and influenced literature throughout the world. The writings of great philosophers are studied in world universities and teaching-learning-institutions. There are few places where philosophy ‘the queen of all sciences’ is absent at a larger level in educational institutions. Efforts must be made to invite general people to philosophical studies and wisdom. Also, the governing body/authorities of the State must realize the need and importance of philosophy and give it a proper place i...

An Inquiry into the Nature of Dark Matter

The concept of dark matter is one of the important concepts in the scientist’s explanations of the universe. In this work, an attempt has been made to examine the nature of “dark matter” as well as to inquire into what lies beyond the cosmology?  Before we examine the ontology of dark matter we need to be acquainted of how it is being described in the scientific world.  Dark matter is a  hypothetical  form of  matter  that is thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the  universe , and about a quarter of  its total energy density . The majority of dark matter is thought to be non- baryonic  in nature, possibly being composed of some as-yet-undiscovered  subatomic particles [1] Various scientists and scholars tried to probe into the presence of dark matter and its support and relation to other matter and cosmos in general. For this reason, various astrophysical gravitatio...