Perennial

Reading the late Joseph Campbell or especially watching his lectures is always a pleasure because of his infectious enthusiasm and basic optimism. He was not a ...

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...

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 ...