This column by Martin LeFevre was written shortly before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. We feel it is fitting to re-run it at this moment. Democracy works, in…
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An old friend from philosophy grad school and I are asking a pressing, non-philosophical question: What the hell is going on? It isn’t just American politics that’s completely gone off…
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The cornerstone of tribal mentality is the self. When humans were at an early stage of development, the self, like the tribe, was apparently inevitable. But in the modern world,…
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Western philosophy, like Western civilization, is in crisis. What Plato called “the highest music” has been reduced to a discordant echo of science. Pouring salt in the wound, Stephen Hawking…
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“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture…
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Questioning and wanting to understand the reason for existence has been a motive for reflection, investigation, scientific probing, sleepless nights and praying for inspiration and guidance. Throughout the ages we…
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It’s a mystery how the essence of a person, even one who lived 2500 years ago, can be conveyed through the written word. Especially when that person, Socrates, decried the…