Anton Wilhelm Amo: The African Philosopher in 18th Century Europe
Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1700 – c. 1750) - born in West Africa, enslaved, and then gifted to the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel - became...
What Are You Reading…On Travel
The last few weeks have been filled with travel. After my semester in China ended, I went on a two week tour of China...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: After September 11th, A Permanent State of Exception?
After the September 11th terror attacks, Western broadcast media repeatedly trumpeted the refrain that somehow ‘everything was different!’ than before that shocking event, and...
What Are You Reading…On Human Nature
At lunch recently I had an interesting discussion with two friends. It started with the issue of taxes, and moved through several other smaller...
Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Educating The Just Citizen In The Cave of Charlottesville
When one reflects upon the terrorist attack that occurred in Charlottesville Virginia that resulted in one death and nineteen injuries, it is of the...
What Are You Reading…On Hinduism
The philosophy underlying Hinduism contrasts in many interesting ways with the various philosophical traditions that come from the Western world. There is a search...
What Are You Reading…On Intimacy and Sex
Love manifests itself in many ways, and there are many kinds of love for which this is the case. One type of love is...
Questions About Heaven
By Steven M. Cahn
For many theists the importance of believing in God rests on the possibility of a blissful afterlife. Yet the notion of...
What Are You Reading…On Humor
Recently, I came across a new Harry Potter chapter written by a predictive text computer program. The organization that organized this, Botnik, has had...
Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition
Vasilis Grollios, Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition, Routledge, 2017. (Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory Series)
Despite the crisis and the fact...