Descartes’ Insulting Language in the Preface to the Meditations on First Philosophy
“The Meditations will inevitably be read by weak minds who will believe and be consoled by the promise of immortality, but it is addressed to les plus for...
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Socrates, Money, and Virtue: Apology of Socrates 30a-c
What I would like is success. I’d like to do a thing well, get something good, and feel secure about what I can accomplish. Maybe “success” is the wrong w...
Giuseppe Ungaretti, “I am a creature”
At the battle, where one maneuvers around life and death, the mountain comes into view over and over. The mountain, “this stone,” breaks the sky, bu...
Giuseppe Ungaretti, “Another Night”
I want to thank everyone who has been reading and has plans to continue reading this blog. While I was wading through Ungaretti recently, it struck me that his ...
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
1 The unexamined life is not worth living does not seem true. We can be very hurt in friendships and relationships; we can fall to pieces when goals, large or s...