Plato’s Cave
Plato’s allegory of the cave appears in Book VII of Plato’s most famous and longest dialog, The Republic. Plato’s dialogs frequently star Plato’s teacher Socrates as a…
Nietzsche – The Diabolical Saint of Acceptance: Explaining Why He Appeals to Both Right and Left
Philosophers have a choice between originality and truth. When it comes to the human condition nearly every true thing that can be said about it has probably…
John Locke – Quantifying Reality
The modern division between the words “objective,” and “subjective” can be traced back to certain thoughts of John Locke, and Galileo before him, at the start of…
The Fantasy of Promiscuity
Periodically, some group of people come up with what seems to them to be the secret to human happiness; the end of marriage and the birth of…
When One Sex Attacks The Other, Both Lose
Many feminists describe the history of humanity as a male tyranny, oppressing and maltreating women at every opportunity. Their name for this is the “patriarchy;” a name…
Warren Farrell on Why Men Earn More
Why Men Earn More and What Women Can Do About. Warren Farrell. New York: AMACOM, 2005. Warren Farrell’s book Why Men Earn More and What Women…
What’s Wrong With a Little Political Correctness?
Political correctness is an instrument of oppression and scapegoating most prominently used by academic and political elites and enforced by mainstream news outlets. It is authoritarian, conformist…
Cultural Diversity
Diversity as Self-Nullifying Culture, in the anthropological sense, is a combination of language and traditions involving values, ideas about education, cooking, family life and public life. Culture…
Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Race
In The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, James Le Fanu provides a devastating instant visual refutation of Ancel Key’s claim that the consumption of animal fat…
Social Justice: An Analysis
Cosmic Justice: Infantile and Nihilistic Social class, home environment, genetics and other factors all contribute to differences between individuals. People differ in looks, height, income, social status,…
Monsters of Duty: Cordwainer Smith’s Attack on Kantian Morality and the Suppression of Feeling in Scanners Live in Vain
The Best of Cordwainer Smith. Cordawiner Smith. New York: Ballentine Books, 1975) The scanners in Cordwainer Smith’s story “Scanners Live in Vain” are heroes who have…
Darwin vs. Morality: Trying to Find a Biological Basis for Morality
There are certain kinds of arguments philosophers call “self-defeating” because if you turn out to be right you are wrong and obviously if you turn out to…
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…