Posted on July 1, 2022 Leave a Comment
Which stories we tell, and how we tell them, goes a long way toward articulating who we are and how we understand ourselves.
Posted on June 1, 2022 Leave a Comment
Sages and mystics of many stripes have claimed that the secret to life lies in hidden in some unexpected place. An equation from probability theory devised by an eighteenth-century statistician is certainly not the least unusual.
Posted on May 1, 2022 Leave a Comment
The Indian dramatist crafts distinctive emotional effects that allow the audience to savour those emotions; those emotional flavours, or rasas, culminate in a savouring of tranquility; and savouring tranquility offers a foretaste of the spiritual liberation that is our ultimate goal. Not at all bad for a night out at the theatre.
Posted on April 3, 2022 Leave a Comment
If you want to be a better person, the subject you should study is mathematics.
Posted on March 1, 2022 Leave a Comment
We live in an era that’s impatient and grasping, says Heidegger. Our technological prowess is only the most outward evidence of this more general way of being in the world.
Posted on February 1, 2022 Leave a Comment
It’s as if Plato were proposing a wholesale ban on Hollywood, Netflix, the publishing industry, and pop music—and that’s just for starters.
Posted on January 1, 2022 Leave a Comment
There’s no easy way around Singer’s argument once you encounter it. That’s what makes it dangerous.
Posted on December 2, 2021 Leave a Comment
According to Grasshopper, the best life is a life devoted to playing games.
Posted on November 1, 2021 Leave a Comment
On one hand, Heidegger is arguably the most important figure in European philosophy in the twentieth century. On the other hand, he was for a time a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party.
Posted on September 15, 2021 2 Comments
If we can learn to learn from one another, the philosophy of the Americas has tremendous potential for syncretism and growth.