Sam Harris: The Unconverted
René Girard argues that all the great tales are conversion stories; the sinner redeemed. This is why Dostoevsky novels are ultimately uplifting. As someone commented, Crime and…
Utilitarianism; A New Kind of Evil
Utilitarianism represents a nadir in philosophical moral reasoning, more corrupting and evil even than the spontaneous tendency to scapegoat. Before Plato, the Ancient Greek attitude to morality…
Foundationalism: In Praise of Vagueness
Thoughts inspired by teaching epistemology for the first time and listening to the podcasts of Jordan Peterson. Epistemology became a major topic for analytic philosophers because…
Philosophy and the Crisis of the Modern World
Ideas have consequences. Arguably, a precondition of having a workable, functioning and non-nihilistic culture rooted in a particular time and place, incorporating “a people” with some functioning…