“What is Philosophy?” 8/23/19
[Note: I’m preparing for my classes next week and writing out lecture materials. I googled “What is philosophy?” and appreciated all the answe...
Category: philosophy
Xenophon’s Socrates
Remarks that were meant to be delivered December 1st, 2017 by the author at the Gorman Faculty Lounge, University of Dallas. The dissertation defense was succes...
Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Case of Wagner,” 1st Chapter
for Ricky McAlister It is raining stupidly in Dallas. Flooded roads have not prevented traffic. Out of the wet and sticky weather people roam into stores, gas s...
Bruno Bettelheim, “Freud and Man’s Soul”
“Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love,” claims Freud in a letter to Jung, and Bettelheim devotes his short book to this proposition (1)....
On Esotericism
John Smith, according to Jill Lepore, was prone to making things up. He claimed to have bedded princesses while battling by land or sea the world over. Russia, ...