Month: August 2006

Consciousness is both the bane and glory of human beings. Popular Buddhism tells us that to be born a human being is a great privelege, by which is meant that t...

Reading Philosophers Behaving Badly by Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson (2005). The book is a popular treatment of the philosophical ideas of Rousseau, Schopenhau...

Someone wrote to object to the presence of “New Age” on a site devoted to hermits, a contradiction in the eyes of the correspondent. Hermitary simpl...

A writer once said (I don’t remember whom or where) that he no longer listened to the music of Rachmaninoff because he no longer identified with such feel...

Existentialism maintains that the individual is free to create a self-directed life and set of values for himself or herself. The realization of this capacity m...