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Excerpts on happiness
It’s a cliché but it’s worth repeating: one cause of modern loneliness is the attitude of treating people as means to an end, namely...
Aug 8, 20153 min read


In defense of Socrates
(This is the sequel to the blog post "From the Greeks to the Enlightenment." From my book Finding Our Compass.) Nietzsche ridiculed the...
Apr 18, 20153 min read


From the Greeks to the Enlightenment
[A book excerpt.] The best way to think about the human task of living is that it should be, as Nietzsche said, a continual journey of...
Feb 10, 20154 min read


Radical human nature
The power of indoctrination is shown by the fact that most people don’t consider themselves radical leftists, socialists, or anarchists....
Sep 27, 20143 min read


Homo ludens vs. homo institutorum
[Excerpt from a book.] The psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott said it simply—one of those simple but profound truths worth remembering: “It is...
Sep 15, 20143 min read
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