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Descartes’ Insulting Language in the Preface to the Meditations on First Philosophy

Posted on November 5, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

“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...

philosophy/plato

Socrates, Money, and Virtue: Apology of Socrates 30a-c

Posted on October 23, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

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...

nietzsche/philosophy/poetry

Giuseppe Ungaretti, “I am a creature”

Posted on June 25, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

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...

philosophy/poetry

Giuseppe Ungaretti, “Another Night”

Posted on June 20, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

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 ...

philosophy/plato

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Posted on February 29, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

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...

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Student of Political Philosophy. Writes too much, badly needs an editor. Everything on this blog will eventually be revised or eliminated. The hope of this blog is to present you varied, thoughtful works, ones not typically engaged online. Contact me.

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