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There is a great difficulty in understanding what the purpose of life is, though I believe that this question is often discussed in a bifocal manner that is either left unspoken or at least is not considered adequately. What I am referring to is the fact that this question is frequently considered on either aContinue reading “A Note on the Concept of Happiness”

Over the last few days, I have been chatting online with a friend who is presently invested in a liberal arts education like myself; I focus in politics and philosophy, while she is interested in art history. We were discussing the fear around the recently (and still currently) spreading coronavirus and COVID-19. Her biggest fearContinue reading “Michael Oakeshott and the Religious Sensibility”

One unexpected gem that I stumbled upon in the first semester of my Masters degree is the French mystical thinker, Simone Weil. To say that she is a writer who is difficult to define is a significant understatement; her influences have a dynamic and seemingly contradictory range, with three crucial ones being Plato, Karl Marx,Continue reading “Simone Weil: Attention and Imagination”

As has been the case for many of us over the last little while, I have been nearly confined to my little apartment with my roommate. This has meant that we have likely had more interaction and conversation over the last week than we have during the past six months. Despite that we get alongContinue reading “Plato and Socrates On the Importance of Dialogue”