The classical perspective of the Left, or what is called the Left, and indeed the strategy shared by the clever of the Right, is to blame...

We are past the point of a human history. History, of course, was always human, in that it recorded the legacy of humanity and little...

Last week, I began to attack the notion of Descartes of pure essentialism, which is by no means confined only to Descartes, and asserts...

Likely by the light of the candle we are in-turn about to discuss, René Descartes wrote in 1641 Meditationes de Prima Philosophia; a...

Nothing of importance will ever happen again. This is where the track ends. It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is...

There are many reasons to celebrate humanity; perhaps as many to celebrate as there are to condemn. But without doubt one of the great...

The world is, in itself, a system. It is a coalition of elements and being. Not individual beings, but processes of being. All of these...

The notion of time is one which intersects at all points between mythology, religion, philosophy, science and beyond. Despite our...

Martin Heidegger is perhaps the greatest philosopher of Modernity. Of course such a lofty claim is wholly dependent on a myriad of...

In English, there is no significat distinguishment between the dual meanings of dream, aside from contextual reference. There is the...

No concrete anthropological evidence exists for the origin of burial. Whether it be the over ten thousand year old cave at Qafzeh or some...

In 1955, upon the acceptance of the Hanseatic Goethe Prize, T. S. Eliot delivered one of his most famous and important speeches,...

The only reason we, as humans, conceptualise existence, identity and experience as singular, as specific, is because of an illusion of...

So often do we go to the Louvre, or the Sistine chapel, or the Duomo of Milan, to marvel at great works of the masters of yesterday. But...

Long has the cloud of the twentieth century, to borrow the wording of Ruskin, hung low over the past and future. Still now, drown we in...

A child cannot speak. It exists before language, and must, through the process of experience, come to master language. The means which it...

A barometric low hung over the Aegean. It moved eastward to a high-pressure area over Athens, and below in the shade of the clouds stood...

Inherent to much of contemporary thinking is the presupposition of a dialectic, a dichotomy, one side against the other, and though the...

Someone who wants to appear smart will often use large academic vocabulary in an effort to add ethos to a piece. Oftentimes, this usage...

*adapted from my review of Late Night With the Devil (2023) What is horror? Why is it important? I've already defended science fixion on...