Toward a more holistic understanding of life, world, and reality. — Imagine you are looking at a tree. You view the tree from a particular perspective. You see one side of the tree, but you do not see the other side of the tree. If you are standing on the ground, you probably cannot see the top of the tree. If…

“Hell is other people,” wrote the famous existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in his play titled “No Exit.” I can’t say that he is wrong, at least not entirely. …

The Argument In The Case for Animal Rights, Tom Regan argues for an inclusive system of morality based on the idea of inherent value. For Regan, all experiencing creatures have inherent value. The “inherent” part of the phrase is most important in Regan’s argument. Inherent value is meant to depict…

“If Chrysippus had not existed, neither would the Stoa.” This became a popular catchphrase of the Stoics. The Stoics viewed Chrysippus as a central figure in helping to establish the core doctrines and principles of Stoicism. Chrysippus is often hailed as the “second founder of Stoicism.” The Stoics who we…

“Man is the measure of all things…” It is likely that you have heard this phrase uttered at one time or the other. It is an explicit declaration of relativism, and one of the earliest accounts of such a theory. It was Protagoras who made this statement. He lived during…

Mind and matter or physical and mental — these are distinctions that we are familiar with. We needn’t have studied philosophy extensively or have had any type of specialized training in order to recognize these terms. An example of this is when we hear the phrase “mind over matter,” and…

One would have thought that in this age of information, logical fallacies would cease to exist. But, amazingly, the exact opposite has happened despite our incredible access to information. After all, we can open up an internet browser and within a few minutes we have thousands of pages filled with…

I’ve made some rather strange and unexpected decisions that fall outside of the social and economic norms of our 21st century. The American Dream, at least for me, is dead… and in a way, I may be loosely following the Cynic dream instead. …

My recent venture into the world of car sales caused me to realize that sophistry, in its most shameful guise, is still alive and well today. I am speaking of the sophistry that seeks to deceive in order to profit… either in sales or politics. During the second half of…