Does traveling make a difference in how we think, understand others, and see through their eyes? Do we know ourselves better? No trite matter given our escalating bouts of xenophobia. It all depends ...
In his irresistibly profound "Denial of Death," Ernest Becker asserts that we innately seek "to achieve something more than a mere animal succession. The distinctive human problem from time immemorial ...
Michael Christopher Brannigan, Japanese-born, Philosophy Ph.D. and Religious Studies M.A. from University of Leuven, Belgium, formerly Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics, College of Saint Rose, is Adjunct ...
For more than 20 hours on May 15, 2006, 34-year-old David Sharp sat dying some 900 feet from the peak of Everest, severely hypothermic, while fluid filled his lungs from pulmonary edema. Nearly 40 ...
In his "Life of Reason," philosopher George Santayana writes, "Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim." Has higher education strayed from its ultimate aim to ...
Why has the face mask insanely erupted into a heated bio-cultural-geo-political-egomaniacal squabble practically stigmatizing common sense? Let's switch cultures. When I wore a face mask chopping ...
If I deliver a commencement address to graduates of liberal arts colleges, it would consist of a final exam (probably why I would never be asked), something like this: Graduates, well done. You've ...
When it comes to time's meaning, my best teachers were the dying, who knew they had little time left. My hospice patients, with prognoses of six months or less, discovered that the clock is only ...
Philosophers Thomas Cathcart's and Daniel Klein's bestseller, "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar," romps through heavy-hitting philosophical questions with jokes. Like the one about two cows in a ...
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in his “Republic” remains a classic parable of human nature. Here, prisoners in an underground cave mistake shadows on the wall with reality. They confuse the superficial ...
There is no solid line of causation as to why certain cultures confront disasters in different ways. Our lingering pandemic purgatory is vivid proof. The COVID-19 disaster is not simply the event, the ...
Michael Christopher Brannigan, Japanese-born philosophy Ph.D. and Religious Studies M.A. from the University of Leuven, Belgium, formerly Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics, College of Saint Rose, is an ...
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