Or, what I should have said on the last day of my last class: Never stop.  Philosophy is a discipline, and it is imperative that you keep it up, and deepen the discipline.  Otherwise, as the saying goes, your life, unexamined, will not be truly worth living.  Indeed, a life with no philosophy . . . (More)

 Chrysippus, a favorite and very quotable Stoic, once said that poverty teaches by force those lessons that philosophy tries to teach by persuasion.  In this I am inclined to agree with him.  Recently, the American news media have been much agitated over reductions in consumer spending, for exa . . . (More)

  Nothing to say today - or, nothing that I can bring myself to say.  Thankfully, Mr. Wiggles did say something, and it's worth passing on: As a semi-pro arguer, I find this remarkably efficient.  I mean, The God Delusion didn't have any pictures at all! Tags: Religion ; Philosophy ; Athei . . . (More)

 Friends, and regular readers (if any) may know that I am sympathetic to Buddhism, though I am not a Buddhist.  (I'm not much of a joiner.)But, sometimes, it seems to me that the Buddhist dhamma is something like what parents do when they've taken a small child to see a scary movie.   Seeing t . . . (More)

 I hate to break it to you guys, but you're a bunch of assholes.Look at you - you chow down on the third world, and dump it out all over the fourth world, pausing occasionally to throw a sucker punch into the second.  It's a good thing there aren't fifth and sixth worlds, or things could get *r . . . (More)