Philosophical sigh.
I’ve been meaning to write but I’ve spent most of my time crying. Forgive me.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
—Socrates
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it;…How a man may know whether he be a lover of truth in earnest, is worth inquiry; and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. The not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain receives not the truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth’s sake, but for some other bye-end.
—John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
A Warning of Initiation
My mind has trouble sitting still.
I’ve created this pop-up blog on philosophy, so I can write about it until I don’t feel like it anymore. Follow me if you would like to travel with me on my journey through life’s perennial questions.
This stuff is not for the weak at heart. The pursuit of understanding reality by means of philosophical inquiry may rouse both joy and pain, beliefs, and disturbances that may force you to reject or change your previous beliefs or worldviews. A certain degree of emotional health is necessary to continue this pursuit with integrity.
Here come months and maybe years of posts on philosophy.
To be covered:
What is philosophy?
Theories of knowledge, on the certainty, source, and limits of knowledge.
Philosophy of Religion and the traditional arguments for the existence of God, the problem of evil, and faith/reason.
The philosophy of the mind including the mind-body problem and the problem of personal identity.
Free will/determinism
Moral responsibility
Punishment
Moral relativism
Morality and self-interest
Religion and ethics
Standards of moral relativism And challenges to moral theories.
If you choose to keep following me, and read my posts, you’re in for a ride. The ride of your thinking life.
