Category: Philosophy
In Critique of Practical Reason, Immanuel Kant claims that there is a “moral feeling” that incentivizes people to adhere to the moral law. He calls…
Leave a CommentThe concept of being lies at the center of Edmund Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology, but he does not address this idea as forcefully as his successor—Martin…
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I’m fixated on the subject of trust, and in particular, I’m fixated on the perspective of “self-trust.” However, even more than trust, I’m fixated on…
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Yesterday, after publishing the review about Michel Foucault’s article called “About the Beginnings of the Hermeneutics of the Self,” I started thinking more about the…
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In the fall of 1980, Michel Foucault, arguably one of the most influential philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century, came to Dartmouth College to deliver…
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I’m thinking about memories and what constitutes experience after reading Joan Scott’s 1991 article called “The Evidence of Experience.” Scott’s article asks critical questions about…
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This post is inspired by a conversation that I had with my friend Dan earlier today in which we discussed the rising use of graphic…
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This post will be corollary to what I wrote a few days ago about the chaos and destruction of neoliberalism, but today, I’m focused on…
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I’ve been thinking about the role of authority for months now, but it wasn’t until recently that I began to think of it as a…
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Terrence Malick released a new movie in 2019 called A Hidden Life. It’s set in rural Austria during WWII and follows the story of a man…
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