Writing
Writing to help you think better about things that matter
- What is "philosophy"? Is philosophy a noun or a verb?
- Slow reading, deep thinking Here's something we do in the salons
- Nicks are good and kids are boring. And Hegel. Do you like cardboard boxes sliding along string?
- Kaputt machen Is there enough Chaos in your life?
- Philosophy was once alive I left academia in the summer of 2022. Since then, I do philosophy in the world. I do it with people and for people who really are grappling with philosophical questions – not as theoretical puzzles, but as things that matter in their lives.
- Great Leaders Question Philosophical Assumptions Leaders who are unable to articulate their own philosophical views and challenge those of others now risk losing their ability to exercise meaningful leadership.
- Pen pals Anyone fancy real letters?
- What Should I Do? We are obliged without exception to understand clearly the question of our guilt, and to draw the conclusions.
- I have a dream Tell me about yours
- I ask for help Independence is an illusion
- An Epiphany about Epiphanies Ask not what your epiphany can do for you ...
- The Consumption Society If the way the Milky Way revolves ignores your desires for one or two days, do not sink into sadness.
- The Wisdom Project Why not try to live wisely?
- On Doing My Best Sunflowers, goats, and doing your best.
- Restarting the motor Easy writing makes hard reading. But I needed to do it this way.
- More words Blueberries, sadness, and David Hume
- The Myth of Arrival Bloody Buddha
- A Symposium on Love We will think together, carefully, and with love.
- to everything there is a season in which i stop trying to find tomatoes
- On saying yes in which I love my wife
- On Regrets in which I'm glad my kids can't read
- On Listening in which I try to be quiet
- On Confidence in which the machinery begins to creak again
- The Global and the Local Our lives are shot through with tensions between the global and the local, the personal and the general.
- Lehrhaus: 1st Semester Details In which I do some admin
- The Global and the Local Course Description and Details
- The New Philosophy Lehrhaus It's time for a learning that no longer begins in books and leads to life, but begins in life, and leads … who knows where?
- It's okay, whispered love I am in many respects a somewhat broken man.
- Bonhoeffer on Freedom: Meditation #1 No one experiences the secret of freedom, except through discipline.
- In which I stop trying to solve my problem Like some odd and very painful boomerang, my crisis of meaning kept returning.
- Gelbe Autozimmer I think I'm doing this, he said, because I love you so much.
- Love in the daily grind How do I access and experience love while I am exhausted and overwhelmed and every day feels like a day to survive rather than a day to live?
- Fatherhood It's sad, how much of life slips through our fingers, lost to our memories.
- Know Thyself What if to examine life means not to examine your own life, your own subjectivity, but rather literally to examine life?
- What do you need? Why are you suffering?
- Brand Identity I try to be sincere in my search for truth. And this means accepting it even when I hear it from angels.
- On Bob Dylan He could play what was alive or he could play what was dead.
- On Change Du musst dein Leben ändern, writes Rilke. You must change your life. Well, yes, Rainer. Of course. But how?
- On Creativity The mountain spring has dried up.
- Peak Experience Arthur Worthington expected to see symmetry. He expected regularity. He expected what he thought of as beauty. His mind, as he said, was “filled with an ideal splash - an “Auto-Splash” - whose perfection may never be realised.”
- Meaningful Work Simple needs, human needs - genuine human needs. But what is this word genuine and what does it have to do with need?
- Struggle, gifts, trains and delight It is a strange beautiful thing, to be so delighted by life. What happens to us when we grow up?
- Love, and do as you please These words have been present in me today. Over and over again they arise, a gentle repetitive rhythm … love, and do as you please.
- How Much Land Does a Man Need? “Our only trouble,” thought Pahóm, “is that we haven’t land enough. If I had plenty of land, I shouldn’t fear the Devil himself.”
- How can we know the Good? Like many of us, I want to be good and wise and happy. But would we recognise those things if we were given them?
- The holidays are done There is such a damned lot to do and never enough time to do all of it.
- Someone I love is suffering Someone I love is suffering, wrote a friend. What can philosophy tell me about my responsibilities to help them?
- How's life? I'm not saying that life is uniformly wonderful. I'm saying that life is not uniformly anything.
- Stillness Alles ist gut wie es ist, said the stillness. Everything is good as it is.
- Experiences of Racism I experience myself as living in a racist society.
- Magic Every moment of my life, I am carried by magic.
- One Thought Too Many Should the man save the stranger or his wife?
- Philosophy and Ordinary Life If there’s a God, He must come meet me here. I no longer wish to travel.
- 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 We do not know - so let us live as if we do not know. We long to know - so let us live as if we long to know.
- Socrates Perhaps Socrates is telling us that one of the biggest obstacles to wisdom is thinking that we already have it.