I have organised my philosophical work around three core and recurring themes: Being and Place, Rational Freedom, and the Natural Law....

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it" Tagore I'd qualify on logic. It depends. Be careful of...

Metaphorics - Mythology, Metaphysics, and Metaphor This essay was sparked by a quote on Mythos and mythology as things which give access...

MYTHOS AND LOGOS - THE DELUSIONS OF RATIONALIZING THE NON-RATIONAL. "I've always preferred mythology over history because history is made...

Here and there, the penny is dropping - the world has drifted into unreality, and people are concerned to know what it will take to come...

Create a problem where none exists, slice and dice humanity according to identity, divide society and turn people against one another,...

The Loss of Deep Problems The Certain and the Measurable as the End of Metaphysics and Spirituality “Some philosophers (or whatever you...

The Emptiness and Transience of Life In despair, seeing all his plots unravelling, his machinations brought to nothing, Shakespeare's...

Reason, Freedom, and God “Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Hence the critic can take his cue from every...

Locating the Origins of the Modern Malaise The fate of our times is characterised by rationalisation and intellectualisation and, above...

An Essay on Rational Freedom A brief introduction to the conception of 'rational freedom' which is the organizing principle of my work....

In face of a movement which takes some of your own themes, reduces and relativizes them by way of arbitrary, self-chosen standards, and...

The Dark Ages to Come Have Been Here a Long While The Dark Ages are already upon us and have been for some time. “This time however the...

Finally, at long last, and not before time, there are signs, here and there, that parts of “the Left” are beginning to see identity...

The fundamental question of the age Can a society sustain itself if its members aren’t willing to nurture the roots that gave birth to it...

Being Essential, Essential Being I write as a philosopher who went out on a limb in the 1990s by arguing forthrightly for an essentialist...

Naturalism as an Inhumanism This essay consists of thoughts and observations incited by the reaction the following article inspired: What...

Autocrats and Democrats I recently watched “The Internecine Project,” a movie I remember enjoying from the seventies and which I hadn’t...

The Motivational Economy [Written October 2020] This post has been incited by comments made by a number of people involved in bridging...

In Defence of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. On the Loss of Transcendence and the Decline of the West By Jordan B. Cooper This...