Life’s Purpose March 4th 2025 I believe that people are suffering today, like in any other era, due to entirely preventable reasons. And I believe that the vast majority of human beings have the power within themselves to take action and improve their life. I do not believe that everything Read more…
To Know the Reason Why Nov – Dec 2025 We human beings often choose to act simply because we cannot immediately think of a reason not to. Yet thoughtlessness is not clarity, and the absence of a ‘No’ is not the presence of ethical permissibility. Acting without a reason is Read more…
As always, I write for myself, but if this helps anyone, that would of course make me smile. The trigger of these thoughts is a conversation with a professor I admire. She asked me why I became so attracted to Aristotle as a freshman at Princeton. to strive for a Read more…
I haven’t posted anything in a while, but I’ve of course not stopped reading or working on understanding Aristotle. Here is an essay I worked on on-and-off for the last few weeks 🙂 Don’t mind me very clumsily trying to make some sense of the De Anima and De Motu Animalium. Bibliography: Read more…
Key passages from Maximilien Robespierre’s speech, “Republic of Virtue”, during the Reign of Terror, which officially sentenced 16,594 people to death.
Summary of “Knowledge About the Mind: Links Between Theory of Mind and Later Metamemory” by Kathrin Lockl & Wolfgang Scneider. Photo: Hope Kean at MIT
Notes & passages that interest me from Aristotle’s works on biology 🙂 Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Post by Melanie Berman & Masako Toyoda. Collective Guilt vs. Collective Responsibility. Photo: Hannah Arendt & Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
Quotations from the famous essay “The Study of the Negro Problems” by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1898. Photo: London Trees.