One Thought Too Many
Should the man save the stranger or his wife?
Philosophy and Ordinary Life
The actual world had asked something of him. But he lived in the true world and had failed to answer the call.
Walking with Death
Death was my companion on this walk.
Camus on the Absurd
“Do you want the rest of the seal,” he asked? “Or can I finish it?”
On Sadness
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys.
On Being Here
Is this world not enough?
Plato
Later, in the marketplaces and harbours of the ancient world, in temples and sacred groves, in Athens and Sicily, in Megara and Italy, they would whisper the stories to each other.
The Kingdom of Insecurity
It was the morning of 6th July, 2012. I was hungover but happy. I had no smartphone in those days so, happily unaware of the tyranny of Google Maps, I strolled aimlessly along Parisian boulevards, going where whim and fancy took me. To my left, I saw a small street,
Socrates
He was the son of a stonemason and a midwife. Neither rich nor poor, neither aristocratic nor a peasant … every year, thousands of boys like him were born to thousands of parents in Athens, and every single one of them would live their ordinary lives and die their ordinary deaths,
