Philosophy & Ethics
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.
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Philosophy & Ethics
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.
Academia
Towards a Glass Menagerie: Mourning in Joan Didion and Walter Benjamin
The journalism of Joan Didion has an askant attitude towards the world. It is as if it has, the result of some sort of carelessness, accidentally fallen out of time and lies there as refuse on the floor waiting for it to be all over.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: End Times
The unending nature of infinities and forever that repeats over and over through the cosmos and nature's laws in the destiny of a small soul's minute journey through the vastness of space and the immensity of time.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: 4 Poems by Barbara Siegel Carlson
The natural world teaches lessons about human life and its expansion into the spiritual and metaphysical. Winter branches and onions become metaphors for larger truths. Art and music are also inspirations to deeper understanding.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: Vocational
"Vocational" is a micro-narrative that explores the depth of memory particularly through the lens of religion. This poem hopes to have achieved that religion and the spiritual life permeates every choice and is able to be arrived back to after a lapse, while also grappling with the middle.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: Ode to the Rug on My Living Room Floor
An intimate look at new and old love, with inherited memories and objects giving life to new ones in nuanced but familiar ways. The poem, rich in texture and sound, allows the reader to situate themselves in the love of once-new things, now washed in the fondness and grief of time passed.
Philosophy & Ethics
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.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: Every Howling Thing
As jackals approach a town, the townspeople must flee before nightfall. They all run except for a deaf girl, mourning her dead rabbit.
Philosophy & Ethics
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.
Culture & Identity
Six Pieces by GUSKY
A series of evocative pieces by the internationally acclaimed American artist, Gusky.
Culture & Identity
Stillness Between Pages
A reflection on daily reading
Philosophy & Ethics
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?
Literature & Poetry
Black Box
A short fiction piece about a girl, a girl, a hallway, a kitchen, and perhaps another glass of wine.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: crab apple
A poem about crab apples and self-acceptance, when who you are doesn’t seem to be ‘enough’ in someone else’s eyes.
Culture & Identity
The Deconstruction Construction Project; Documented
As humans, we are drawn towards what is familiar and safe; we desperately claw at comfort and reject discomfort. But what happens to us when we are completely out of our element?
Philosophy & Ethics
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.
Issue I - Blue Winter
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
Culture & Identity
Respecting Antigone
This is the commiserating heart that is both rare and common: common as in all men and women possess it; rare as in few bring it to finality. Antigone was able to maintain her original heart and develop her virtue, immortalising herself and her love for her loved ones.
Culture & Identity