Philosophy & Ethics
Metaphysical and ethical questions—on beauty, mind, and the good.
Dying Generously
Philosophy essay on death and assisted dying, tackling some arguments and counterarguments for medically assisted dying.
Turning the Soul: Plato on Education
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave presents education as a journey from illusion to truth. This transformation is grounded in the hierarchy of knowledge, the Form of the Good, and in moral virtues.
The Long Argument Against Suicide
Suicide solves nothing at all, it only shifts the problem to another state of consciousness.
On Nature Rewritten
This piece explores humanity’s enduring tension between reverence and reason, and the impulse to shape life itself. Drawing on Aristotle, Spinoza, and the Romantics, it argues that creation is not a trespass against nature but the highest expression of our rational and divine curiosity.
Of The Ambition to Become Pitiable
Innocence and pitiability have so far only been defined in negation to evil. The following attempts to describe them in positive terms.
Do Only I Exist: Some Not-so-Solipsistic Views
Exploring Husserl and Wittgenstein on solipsism: is reality only mine, or shared through intersubjectivity, language, and experience?
A Liberal Case for Natural Law
Is law fundamentally natural or man-made? Are there constraints on possible law beyond whatever governments can enforce with threats of violence? Does rule of law, not men, have any meaning if laws are always enforced and interpreted by men?
On Beauty
Can we make objective judgments of beauty? Is beauty only in the eye of the beholder? The following essay argues that we can indeed make objective judgments of beauty, although beauty itself is nothing other than a kind of subjective experience of pleasure.
A Chance to Make It
Cosmic re-enactment in the path of Ars Regia.
The Philosophy of Quantum Physics 7: Is Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete?
A look at different philosophical interpretations of quantum physics. This is the seventh post in the series.
Time and Eternity: Is the Kingdom in the Present?
Time is like reading a single page at a time, while eternity is like holding the entire book in your hands and seeing all pages simultaneously.
On Descartes and Certainty
An essay about Cartesian certainty and its role in global scepticism. It is argued that we should reject his views: the condition of certainty imposes on knowledge is too strong to be acceptable to the point that it undermines itself and hence his rationalist project is ultimately self-defeating.
Improving the Self through Virtue Ethics
This essay is about the applications of virtue ethics - a normative theory of ethics - in everyday life. Normative ethics, virtue ethics, and its applications to self-improvement are discussed.
Does God cause the grass to grow?
Is it truly God that causes the grass to grow? Is not the growth of such grass fully explained by science? If matter provides a sufficient explanation, how can God be regarded as the cause?
Love, fairness and the problem of value
This essay is primarily concerned with love as a moral action between two volitions. It is critical of the instrumental view of reality adopted in contemporary conceptions of economics, and utilitarian ethics.
That Fairness is a Quality of Love
Fairness is the quality of love that does not subjectify or objectify but enfolds as the father did his prodigal son. In it is the love that radiates and the love that soothes, the love that comes from the ocean and the sun
The Ascension, and Will of Heaven
We have a moral prerogative, an instillation within our nature, a call of destiny, that those of us, those of us with ability–or with the impetus to seek to become capable–must thoroughly transform and be the bedrock and foundation of our culture.