What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-conce….

So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent….

I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I've never seen ….

Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal an….

Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all suc….

Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-St….

Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely….

Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ….

But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to make himself s….

Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordin….

Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements gang ….

The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't re….

The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to ….

Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift ….

Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and thei….

The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from….

As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what hu….

People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values….

The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking….

Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passion….

The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you m….