James Baldwin on Masks
James Baldwin on Masks “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live
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Philosophy
The Most Important Thing That I Learned from Kierkegaard
. July is graduation time at my university and our department honored our 63 BA, 11 MA, and 4
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Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Speech – what it means Freedom of speech means freedom to say whatever you want; it does not
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Recognition, Ideology, and Racial Oppression
My paper ‘Recognition, Ideology, and Racial Oppression‘ on Academia. In this paper, I set out three tasks: to define what
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Who Owns the Water?
Although water covers two-thirds of the planet’s surface, only 3% of all water is safe for human consumption. Access to
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Winning, Losing, Learning.
Winning, Losing, Learning. “You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win.” This probably isn’t
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Martin Buber on Encountering Others
Martin Buber on Encountering Others “When we encounter another individual truly as a person, not as an object for use,
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A Concept Little-Known Outside Academic Philosophy May Be The Key To Social Justice
We recently observed the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote in the UK. Still today, though,
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Wittgenstein and Music
While researching for a paper I am writing on the notion of progress, I ran across a paper entitled Wittgenstein,
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Blackstone’s Ratio
Blackstone’s Ratio “Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” – William Blackstone Blackstone was
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Knowledge is Like a Garden
Knowledge is like a garden Knowledge garden Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot by
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Calvinism and the American Conception of Evil
Largely underestimated is the significant influence of John Calvin on culture in the United States. In truth, perhaps only John
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