philosophy The Practicality of Parmenides' "On Nature" You're right! If you back down, you don't just descend into error, you compound the error.
philosophy José Ortega y Gasset on "Intellectual Effort" We, however, must deal with those who say things like "math isn't real" and believe in ESP because they watched a YouTube video once.
philosophy Immanuel Kant: "the possession of power inevitably corrupts reason's free judgment" With the little power I've had, it's the mistakes I imagine I've made which recur in my thoughts.
philosophy Kant and Jefferson on Enlightenment Today I want to talk about a little bit of the rhetoric Kant and Jefferson use to advance Enlightenment ideals. Some scholars assume that because ideals of universal education and technological progress won out years ago, we have an assessment of their legacy ready at hand.
philosophy A "genuine culture" for philosophy? Currently reading Nietzsche's "Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks," translated by Marianne Cowan. This passage about philosophy and "genuine culture" caught my eye. It invites immediate comparison between our age and the ages we imagine. My initial questions: What do we feel
