William James the American pragmatist philosopher in his book "The Varieties of Religious Experience," had a notion of two different...

Saying Friedrich Nietzsche was critical of Christianity might be a slight understatement. He thought it was an oppressive, mendacious,...

Heidegger wrote about the ontology of Dasein in Being and Time. One of the conditions of Dasein's being is that we have "thrownness." ...

I would never call myself an ethicist since ethics was never my speciality in school. I took a seminar once in grad school though on...

It seems to me that people often think of others as either a virtuous person or a person who is full of vice. What do I mean by this? ...

Yesterday January 6, was a shameful day in American history. We had an insurrection happen at Washington D.C. You Donald Trump did...

A quick definition of agency is "agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment. Facticity is "something that already...

Life begins in media res, so to speak, or as Heidegger might put it, Daesin has a thrownness towards its "being-in-the-world." As the...