by Mark English Daniel Kaufman has written on a number of occasions of certain unfortunate trends in contemporary culture, some involving a disconnect between self-perceptions
Month: August 2018
Hedonism
by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ Civilization has…no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like
Supertramp, Egg Salad and Darwin
by Daniel A. Kaufman A terrific takedown of the current, narcissistic “self-improvement” madness. https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/why-are-modern-men-obsessed-with-self-improvement/ High quality video of Supertramp playing live in 1979. My dialogue
Wittgenstein, Russell, and Lawrence
by Mark English I recently wrote a piece in which I looked at the views of some 20th-century thinkers on language, metaphysics, science and philosophy.
Shifting Focus
Daniel Tippens How will you look for it … when you do not know at all what it is? How will you aim to search
To Philosophize is to Learn How to Solve a Murder Mystery
E. John Winner I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn’t have