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In a single day I will traverse the intellectual expanse of philosophy from transcendental idealism to a skeptical naturalism, to a radical empiricism, all in a quest for some intellectual consistency, some philosophic understanding of that which gives rise to our world. It is indeed a contemplation of mystery, of unfalsifiable metaphysics, of the philosophyContinue reading “Brooding on Truth”

Sometimes I am a lake  That behaves as though I were a river  But now and then I can look at my arms and stare at them like foreign objects  And I can feel a pain that isn’t really there  And then if I’m lucky I may shed some tears  And this whole process isContinue reading “The Valor of Sadness”

Jack Nicholson famously said in the cinematic ground zero of American nostalgia Easy rider, that “America loves to talk about individual freedom, but they hate to see a free individual.” Three decades before, Karl Jaspers of Germany was opining on the demands made on man* by the modern world that accompany an immense new freedom,Continue reading “The Dizziness of Freedom”

What is well-being? The shortest, simplest, and easiest answer is, it depends. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy would have us believe it’s rooted either in hedonism, desire, or an objective list, a sort of collection of objective concepts that compose it i.e. friendship, health, etc. Or perhaps it’s completely subjective, in which case other questionsContinue reading “Contemplation, Knowledge, and Well-Being: Undivided and Divided Knowledge”