A love letter to art.
"you built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals" -Lin Manuel Miranda, Hamilton. Some say that Pliny the Elder, an ancient...
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The war on time.
*a dramatization of an actual conversation* "You may have noticed that you were speaking really fast. Try taking a deep breath." "Oh....
The last Man.
“In your drama of life, [your] three acts are all the play… Pass on your way then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who lets...
Case study: "Sister of Mercy".
Browsing the internet is one of the understated joys of the 21'st century. Getting yourself lost in an endless thread of website pages,...
The price of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The price of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (Mostly opinion, to be honest.) The last decade has been one of extraordinary...
Hamlet’s philosophical exercise.
“To be, or not to be. That is the question.” These words are present all throughout western culture. I don’t remember when I first heard...
The wandering philosopher.
From Marcus Aurelius' book, the Meditations, there is a passage that I have revisited often. It caught me by surprise, and it struck me...
The romanticizing of democracy.
*OPINION PIECE* Definition of democracy 1a: government by the people especially : rule of the majority From the greek: dēmokratía, demos...
Days of the future past.
A short reflection on the historical and political context of The death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David. The first time I saw The...
Philosophy fight club? (Plato and Aristotle part I)
"The school of Athens", by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino ( commonly known as Raphael ), is a fresco that resides in the Apostolic Palace at...
Flesh, breath, and reason.
Stoicism "Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will,...
Divine duality
Apollo and Dionysus were children of Zeus. Apollo was the god of the sun, replacing Helios ( the other major sun god ) in popularity. He...
What is art?!
"Art is art" "That doesn't make sense" My friend laughed. "Ok, any action that is you expressing yourself is art" "what?" "yeah, art is...
There is a house.
A short piece. There is a house. It is a house not of loneliness, but of solitude. A house of everything, and of nothing. The house was...
Christianity without tears.
* WORK IN PROGRESS* A reflection on A Brave New World . So far in my life, Brave New World has been the book that has impacted me the...
Who am I, king of Athens?
Theseus's paradox deals with Theseus's ship. According to the story, the athenians preserved Theseus's ship after he came back from...
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