Philosophy: This week I read Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness.” As philifesophical serendipity would have it, he has a whole chapter on bad faith, i.e., lying to ourselves. Life: Lately, I’ve been listening
If there is one theme that I have followed in my personal and professional and philosophical life, it is that of vulnerability. Being open and willing to be imperfect, to be dependent on
This reflection was written in response to a paper by Ladelle McWhorter, which she presented at Penn State last week for a conference that honored the work of Charles Scott. Reflecting on Charles
Now you might appreciate my very clever shirt. By no means am I an expert on Nietzsche. His thought is so original, so complex, and so completely counter-intuitive at times that I have
https://youtu.be/Le3Zkqi88b0 This is my latest video. I thought some of my readers might appreciate it. Description: “A UCLA student anti-Asian racist comments provides us with a great opportunity to think through other forms
Reading Nietzsche has been very slow going for me because he makes me think, and as in this case, I sometimes indulge in these thoughts by writing. When I read Nietzsche, it seems
The past few weeks have been marked by a unique kind of bubbling deep in my belly. It’s a nervousness, or perhaps a growing awareness, and something that has resisted being put into
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