Or as Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826: Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es Food is quite possibly the first area where practicality began to develop into philosophy. As we got past the most basic, I must…
A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words. -Robert Frost, Letter to Louis Untermeyer (1 January 1916). It’s been a rough month; kids coming home for holidays, kids leaving for good, getting ready to move to New York, and getting the…
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1096.a5 As election day approaches it’s been easy to see some of the ugly…
Poor is the man who can boast of nothing more that gold. -William Scott Downey, Proverbs Ch 1, #11 (1858) In the article, The Shared Delusion of Money, I discussed some of the delusions surrounding the “value” of money. The other day I overheard someone talking about how they wanted…
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. -Sigmund Freud, The Complete Works Change is in the air, and not just because it’s autumn. Governments and cultures all over the world are being called upon to change. This desire for change is occurring because social structures are…
While I’ve been sitting here for a couple of hours trying to write my next philosophical article for the blog, I came to realize that philosophy is a team sport not a single player game. There is a reason Socrates and Plato had people around. In a group it was…
What is the meaning of life?
how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! – Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 When you look up at the Milky Way you see millions of stars. Then think about…