Dying Generously
Philosophy essay on death and assisted dying, tackling some arguments and counterarguments for medically assisted dying.
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Philosophy & Ethics
Metaphysical and ethical questions—on beauty, mind, and the good.
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.