For most scholars, the texts of Plato’s dialogues constitute the unique and supreme source of his philosophy. Affected by a specific prejudice, which could be called “textual…
Modernity has long been defined by materialism. Yet contrary to what the critics of modernity think, we now live in a post-materialist age. Taken to its ultimate…
During these last three centuries, politics has corrupted Man more than during the whole of pre-History. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline The news is ominous. We are living a…
Alienation has been a central concern for philosophers since at least the early nineteenth century. But the thinker who gives us perhaps the most compelling account of…
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is, without question, the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. While existentialism and phenomenology as philosophical movements existed prior to Heidegger, his 1927 Being…
We who live today take for granted the notion that Odysseus was a noble figure, a sort of archetype for the soul’s yearning for home. This hasn’t…
The left hemisphere of the brain is pragmatic and utilitarian. It has no emotion but language and logic. It deals with inanimate objects and manipulates them for…
“Most thought-provoking for our thought-provoking times is that we are still not thinking.” - Martin Heidegger Intellectually, and not only, we now live in a desert.…
In The Australian, July 22-23, 2023, there was an article by John Carroll titled Death of the Humanities. Carroll began by observing that in some American universities,…
My basic takeaway from reading some of Immanuel Kant’s political essays a few years ago, including the one posing the question of enlightenment, is that the latter…
That the ascetic ideal has meant so many things to man, however, is an expression of the basic fact of the human will, its horror vacui; it…
Robert Sapolsky’s, Behave, published in 2017, provides evidence that when it comes to moral and social matters, the dorso lateral prefrontal cortex, the “decider” part of the…
Providence and chance, how these relate to appearance and reality, are staple themes of Eric Ambler’s (1909-1998) novels. Ambler resists the modern and postmodern urge to intellectualize…
History, for Hegel, is a progressive process, leading toward the realization of true freedom. Hegel attempted to unite a philosophy of mind, politics, and logic with a…
When I’ve talked about the need to defend one’s story, I’ve had in mind my experience that ill-wishers can show astonishing astuteness in picking out key elements…