I saw re-tweeted the other day the following assessment of President Trump—possibly a fragment as I did not follow up and read the article...

I picked up by chance a children's book one fine art, on the cover of which is Paul Klee's 1928  Cat and  Bird. At once I was taken ...

Doctors were probably the last group of professionals broadly trusted across all stripes of society. Now, there seems to be no group whom ev...

So I'm suffering from a bad case of treppenwitz  today, after yesterday an obnoxious driver cut me off on the road after riding imperti...

When considering the causes of your actions, first consider their type so that you may consider more finely their nature. Did you act by ...

Martin Heidegger. Poetry, Language, Thought . "What Are Poets For?" Translated by Albert Hofstadter Poets are the mortals who,...

From The Discarded Image , by C. S. Lewis: We are enjoying intellectus when we 'just see' a self-evident truth; we are exercisin...

As I get older I find that three things are more and more the case. First, I am secure enough to admit that my life is good but not perfe...

One of the most necessary lessons of moral philosophy is contained in this question: why do you see the straw in the eye of your brother an...

Wise men urge us to know ourselves, and this is certainly true. They too give many fine reasons why, but here is one in particular you shou...

From Joseph Campbell's  Myths to Live By : For it is the rite, the ritual and its imagery, that counts in religion, and where that i...

Some men seek out challenges because they expect to grow stronger, wealthier, or wiser by the doing. This is necessary and good if done wit...

Jordan B. Peterson : After explaining how the zebra's stripes camouflage it not against the foliage but against the herd, which confu...

We are inclined to glorify our circumstances when we fancy them the products of our own design–usually this is when life goes well–and lik...

Like the plant that from a seed grows, so do our habits. Tend them so they provide shade and beauty for your character. Some plants, thoug...

Some time ago I began to write down, like the venerable Marcus Aurelius, exhortations to myself in the hopes of urging myself toward the go...

Peter Levine had an article in Aeon a few weeks ago  calling out philosophy for being, "a remarkably un-diverse discipline." I do...

Without fail, at the close of every quarter and semester comes to the teacher the question, "Is there extra credit?" To this inqu...

Gregory B. Smith.  Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity . p. 9-10 It is asserted that all 'difference' is a...

aka a dialogue with myself ending in aporia I admire people who can write the same thing over and over again without stress or dissatisfac...