The central ailment of our body politic is a failure of social cohesion. This virulent and increasingly publicized malady deserves careful...
Emerson’s 1841 essay Self-Reliance is an iconic classic of American thought. In it he asserts, among other things, the importance of transcending...
This brief piece concerns some valiant philosophical efforts to eliminate human suffering. However, it focuses mostly on the limitations of those...
Although every career takes unexpected turns, the twisting path for mine, pilgrim Truth’s, has surely been the strangest. I’m serious. Of course...
The best death, many of us might agree, would be a quick, painless passing in one’s sleep, coming at the end of a long, robustly healthy life....
Few academic philosophers concern themselves anymore with the “the meaning of life.” The subject is just too muddled, too imprecise. But...
In the wake of the most recent terrorist attack by Islamic extremists, I was put in mind of an old Greek myth. Scylla and Charybdis were mythical...
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