Wings of Thought
Kahlil Gibran
Language: English
Pages: 207
ISBN: 1531823408
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A critical exploration of the life's work of one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers and poets, Kahlil Gibran Through his fiction, essays, poems, and art, Kahlil Gibran inspired a devoted international following and transformed modern Arabic literature. In this book, Joseph P. Ghougassian brings together the philosophical elements present across Gibran's diverse writings, including his bestselling work The Prophet, as well as other significant works such as The Broken Wings, which tells the story of doomed young lovers, and the collection of aphorisms in Sand and Foam. Excerpts from Gibran's letters provide a window into his mind, heart, and soul, creating a biography of this groundbreaking, mystical writer unlike any other. This systematic collection introduces Gibran as a "people's philosopher," who used simple, straightforward language to reveal a worldview of rich, deep meaning.
family is still alive? As a biographer, this is my answer: there is plenty of doubt about Miss Haskell’s knowledge of Gibran’s early personal life; for one, whenever Gibran spoke to Haskell of his family, he overexaggerated with lies the story. For example, he did tell her the lie, that his father was wealthy and a tax collector in the Lebanese Government who unfortunately was trialed one day and found guilty of “embezzlement of taxes”, but was then granted pardon, exiled etc.…(B.P., pp. 20 -
authorities never really intervened whenever internal upheaval and civil wars broke out between Maronites and Druzes. For instance, in 1858 the Christian farmers of Kisrawan revolted against their feudal lord, the Khazim family. The Khazim family was a system of primogeniture; they owned the lands of Kisrawan, made the peasants pay exorbitant taxes, and refused to the peasants the right to elect their own wakils, or representatives, as it was the case in southern districts. In their insurrection
Philosophical Library, 1960, p. 98. 4 S.H., pp. 17-19. 5 S.R., p. 58. 6 S.H., p. 19. 7 Th. M., pp. 27-29. 8 Martin Buber, Good and Evil, New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1953, p. 9.—It would seem odd to many intellectuals that I quote a Jewish scholar in a treatise dedicated to an Arab. But I have my reasons which are not political and aim at no politics. My intention is to draw the similarities between Gibran’s thought and the classic thinkers acknowledged by the world. 9 Zenkovsky, V.V., A
remember that the use of defense mechanisms is an indication of neurosis. Gibran writes: “Often times I have hated in self-defense: but if I were strong I would not have used such a weapon.”81 (3) Finally, Gibran dissuades us from practicing hate for mental health purposes. Hate destroys our mental hygiene; it weakens our faculties of thinking, feeling and volition; it raises up our blood tension, and in the long run may accelerate the moment of death. Note that Freud too attributed our
protection from the crushing superior forces of nature. In other words, God is a projection of the self or father image authority, or if one prefers, “man is fundamentally desire to be God.” It is interesting to know at this stage that all the leading atheists, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Sartre, have notwithstanding recognized that the religious belief in God must have helped civilization at one time to get rid of the many superstitions inherited from the primates. But now, they say science can take