On Social Determinism
Social determinism is a dangerous excuse for not trying. While it’s true that we are all born with the burden or gift of our respective histories, these histories alone cannot dictate success or failure. That is to say, the pre-conceptional past encourages making choices that we might consider more immediately viable, but it does not [...]
A first analysis of Job
I just had a thought this morning: What if Job and not Adam had been the common natural father of humanity? In the Book of Job, Job loses everything but faith in God’s will. His wife even tempts him at one point to curse God, but he instead retreats to prayer to apologize to God [...]
The Unfeasibility of Plato’s Republic
It’s seeming more and more to me that Plato was Socrates with bitterness in his heart. All of his earlier work more likely attributable to the historical Socrates seems more forgiving, as though the teacher were aware of some kind of broader truth that put him at peace with the quarrels and flaws of his [...]
On Animal Welfare and the New Culture of Cruelty
Lately I’ve been struggling with the ethical concerns of farmed animals, because I’m of the increasing belief that our current regulations still allow for a significant amount of cruelty. Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s in our nature to eat meat. I have no problem accepting that killing animals for consumption is a part [...]
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