Writing
Thoughts on deciding to paddle the Mississippi River
I graduated from college in May of this year. When I finished high school, I was convinced that institutional education was the tool of an authorit…
Some thoughts on economy as community
I was born into a tradition of middle-class American suburban existence at the turn of the millennium. I grew up in communities — schools, sports t…
The Divided Soul and Dostoevsky’s Polyphonic Response to Plato
The name which Dostoevsky gives to the protagonist of Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov, comes from ‘raskol’ — Russian for ‘schism’ or ‘split.’ It …
Akrasia and the divided soul
‘Akrasia’, a Greek term used to indicate an agent acting against his own better judgment, has been widely explored in philosophical literature as a…
Motion as an Effective Path to Truth
There are many good reasons that human beings tend to stay in one place. There are simple reasons, like familiarity, which leads to safety (a biolo…
Membership in a Moral Community is Not Necessary for the Possession of Rights
In an article entitled “The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research,” University of Michigan law professor Carl Cohen asserts that the p…