Feeling like a Member of the Herd — You wake up. It’s 6 am. You hit the snooze button a few times. Now it’s 6:20. You turn off your air conditioner. You’re sick of the constant noise it creates but it needs to be on; it gets too hot in your little room in the third floor apartment…

We Can Never Experience Reality — When we have the realization that we are “alive,” what comes to mind? What is it one of the first things we realize when we jolt awake into the consciousness of our Being? The first thing we become aware of is the Present moment — that we are a Being…

The Past — Man experiences time. We feel the past and the present, and we anticipate the future. On the surface, this seems like an evident thing. These constructs seem very real to us — we look at the past for pattern recognition, we go to therapy to heal us from past events. …

Ah, New York… — Ah New York, The City that never sleeps Because its so exasperated Ah New York, The City that never sleeps Because its possessed by desperation Ah New York, The city that smells of hot garbage in the summer and where the wind whips you with displeasure in the winter Subway…

How is the average person to live here? — I just moved to this city last month for the second time. This time, it sucks even more. Let me give you some backstory. Some years ago, I was living in New York in a shared apartment with three other people. I had a very small room that was able…

Does the project of philosophy fail if it emerges out of the social situation? — It’s been said that philosophy must emerge out of the current social situation, the situation that man finds himself in. I agree with this sentiment; however, I also think that philosophy is doomed if it’s only allowed to stay within the social situation that it finds itself in. Modern philosophy…

How is it that man plants himself in society? — We live in a rootless society. The principles of today might be changed tomorrow. What is claimed as universally true will inevitably change as the times move forward and as we become ever more disconnected with the self and the world around us. While it may seem like technology leads…

What does it mean to believe? — Lately, I’ve been thinking about beliefs and their impact on how we see and interact with the world. There is an objective nature to fact and reality. I exist, you, the readers exist. These are scientific, objective facts. …

Adding to the Socratic Argument — The argument that knowledge is sufficient for Virtue is a well-known argument in philosophy. In fact, it was Socrates himself that argued this as true. The argument is pretty straightforward. All living things aim at doing good things. As a result, when someone has knowledge of a good thing, they…