Muhammad AlamMuhammad Taha Alam is an independent philosopher whose work centres on the development of an original Ontology of Pain. He conceives pain as the first self-affection of Being-the inaugural vibration through which existence becomes aware of itself. Frm this primary wound, his philosophy traces how Being unfolds through matter, life, consciousness, and moral awareness, shaping the structures of experience and the architectures of the modern world.An alumnus of Durham University, UK, Alam works at the intersections of metaphysics, phenomenology, dialectics, and cosmology. His inquiry asks why pain seems foundational to consciousness; how longing shapes identity and memory; how perception is conditioned by material and cognitive limits; and how individuals become trapped inside large social, economic, and psychological systems that far exceed their understanding. Across his writings, he explores whether reconciliation is possible-whether the human mind can return to harmony with itself after its first rupture.His major works include Pain and Being, The Romantic Absolutist, The Blindness of Scale, Fathers and Sons, and Why Evil Exists. These projects form a unified philosophical system devoted to understanding existence not as a neutral field of being, but as a drama structured by suffering, idealism, memory, and the search for meaning.Through long-form writing and independent research, Alam continues to elaborate this ontology, proposing a coherent account of Being rooted in the primacy of pain and the forms of life, consciousness, and morality that emerge from it. Read More Read Less