The Judeo-Christian tradition hold that the Ten Commandments are the oldest written laws, drafted by the finger of God. While this claim is almost certainly untrue – the earliest known codified laws predate the bible…
Category: The Enlightenment
Are you on the hostile defense?
Just outside my window is a small grove of pine trees. A family of squirrels live in that tree and I often watch them. Often a boy squirrel will jump on girl squirrel without even…
Greed is good, until it isn’t
I have a cat. He mooches from me. I have to carefully coordinate my meals so that I’m eating at the same time he is, otherwise he will come up to me and beg for…
Thinking the unthought
A philosopher in Ancient Greece would speculate. Imagine a conversation where the topic was whether or not a particular species has teeth. The ancients may hypothesize that the animal requires teeth for some particular reason…
Civil Civilizations
One heavily debated subject is that of capital punishment. Should it be allowed? There are several arguments on both sides of the debate and for each argument there is a counter argument. However, at the…
Smaller than a grain of sand
Do yourself a favour. Right now, go to your favorite travel website and book yourself a ticket to Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. It’s a fifteen-hour flight across the Pacific from Los Angeles to Sydney.…
A walk through time
Let’s take a walk. There’s no need to change your shoes. This walk is one that we’re going to take with our imaginations and we’re going to see how we came to believe what we…
The religion of solitude
A solipsist is a person who believes that they are the only thinking, sentient, rational human being. Solipsology is the study of solipsism. Why do solipsists believe what they do? How do they rationalize the…