The Greeks have an old saying, “Gnothi seauton.” Which is just a fancy way to say, “Know thyself.” More valuable than all the objective facts in […]
Collections of limericks and poetry that express principles of Eastern and Western philosophy.
Taboo topics at the dinner table, religion and politics can bring even the brightest banter to a dismal finish. Neither rhyme nor reason nor poetry can […]
Few things known to man are more profound than German philosophy. Even the secondary literature is downright impenetrable. That’s why I strictly keep to the tertiary […]
Picture, if you will, the island of Samos. The year is 547 B.C. and the sunshine is sparkling on the choppy waters of the Aegean Sea. […]
From that first moment when we recognize the certainty and irreversibility of our own mortality—usually between the age of 5 and 7—we humans begin to wonder […]
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes “existentialism” as a term of convenience. Jean-Paul Sartre adopted the name for himself, and most of us associate it with […]