October 22, 2008 – 03:02 am
From the Atlantic’s First Person Plural: “We used to think that the hard part of the question ‘How can I be happy?’ had to do with nailing down the definition of happy. But it may have more to do with the definition of I.”
April 16, 2007 – 03:08 pm
From Wittgenstein, explained, the latest installment from the essays adapted from Clive James’ Cultural Amnesia, a re-examination of intellectuals, artists, and thinkers who helped shape the 20th century: “Wittgenstein’s requirement that we should not be seduced by language is understandable in the context of the rich second phase of his philosophy, whose aim we can [...]
April 16, 2007 – 01:11 pm
From Thomas Friedman’s, eleven-page manifesto, The Power of Green: “A new green ideology, properly defined, has the power to mobilize liberals and conservatives, evangelicals and atheists, big business and environmentalists around an agenda that can both pull us together and propel us forward.” It’s a long ass article to read on the Web, I know, [...]
April 22, 2006 – 12:31 pm
We’ve got some lawyers who read this site and some people who date lawyers; we’ve also got some philosophers on this site. We’ve also got people who simply enjoy a good, thoughtful read (though I fear that my posts fail this last group most of all). Anyway, for all you folks I just mentioned, you [...]
February 28, 2006 – 10:50 pm
I finished reading an awesome book last night. With a three-tiered title, it’s name is Literature Against Philosophy: Plato to Derrida: A defence of poetry, by University of Virginia professor, Mark Edmundson.
The book is exactly what the title says it is. Edmundson pits poetry (or really, any creative work) against the literary theorists whose modus [...]
September 2, 2005 – 12:56 am
I don’t believe in one God, a Father Almighty, a maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. Nor in one Lord Jesus Christ, who is reputed to be the only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages. A God of God, light of light, true [...]
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