Month: November 2007
Heraclitus
Why does the ancient Greek thinker Heraclitus (500 BCE) so attract centuries of philosophers? After all, only fragments of Heraclitus’ work remain, most o...
Beginning simplicity
Categories of logic so dominate Western thinking that they often exclude real thinking about reality. Contradiction and opposites illustrate this. For example, ...
Dogen’s tears
Japanese Zen philosopher Dogen (1200-53) always strikes the reader as a paragon of intellect. His insight, dogged pursuit of philosophical questions, and his ab...
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”
Can we fathom non-existence not as a mere philosophical conjecture but as an experience derived from our observation of human potential, human nature, and techn...
Subjectivity
To Kierkegaard, subjectivity was one’s truth. It was so not because this truth met some external and objective criteria but because it was truly embraced ...