Welcome back, you few and faithful. Let me start by conjuring up a scenario we have all run into. You do a search, or stumble upon some sort of interesting blog. It’s a blog of promise and zeal, and probably has one or two interesting entries in it. Then, as you pick around, you notice [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nietzsche’
Back for 2010
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy in General, tagged Ackermann, beyond, blog, Boyd, Chesterton, Christianity, Craig Boyd, Evil, Friedrich, Good, Good and Evil, Lewis, Magnus, Master, morality, Nietzsche, nobles, Slave on 4 January, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Question #3: What is the Most Important Thing In Life?
Posted in Autobiographical, Philosophy in General, tagged David Hume, epistomology, existentialism, God, Jann, Josh, Karl Jaspers, Kierkegaard, life, love, Nietzsche, Socrates, Truth on 10 December, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It always happens when you make plans that things go wrong. Updating should continue without further glitches. My old Polymate Jennifer asks, “Write about what you feel is the one most important thing in life.” My answer, “Truth” will be expected by many, probably, but the far more interesting question remains: “Why?” Ever since I [...]
Adventures in Existentialism
Posted in Autobiographical, Existentialism and Authenticity, tagged Abyss, Ashley, bookstore, dictionaries, existentialism, Jared, meaning of life, Nietzsche, RCC, Riverside Community College, Satre on 29 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It was a warm Tuesday afternoon that found Ashely and I walking lazily along the hard concrete of RCC towards the bookstore with vague notions of buying dictionaries. Conversation wandered off in that free-floating way that comes after the more concentrated thoughts of the last class, and it was with such a wispy mood that [...]
Thoughts From the Notebook 1
Posted in Autobiographical, Christianity, Philosophy in General, Transcendentalism, tagged Christ, Christianity, Existential, Freud, Lewis, Nietzsche, paradox, Sartre, Screwtape, transcendence on 13 July, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some excerpts from my pocket-notebook about the paradox of human nature and my solution to the “problem of man” (or rather my interpretation of an old solution).
