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“Keeping Up With the Joneses” – My Article in The Wire


My article “Keeping Up With the Joneses” has been published in The Wire

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Where the Stoics go wrong, and how Nietzsche gets it right


“If Stoic wisdom helps you to live the way you want to, then go for it. But if, like me, … More

Nietzsche, Stoicism

Western Philosophy Not Diverse and Global


Today, the view from, and out of, nowhere is common fare among philosophers when they seek to develop knockout, universal … More

Western Philosophy

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus


As he [Wittgenstein] puts it in the book’s [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus] preface: “The aim of the book is to draw a … More

Picture theory of meaning, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein

Socratic Humility


And yet for all this influence, many of our ways are becoming far from Socratic. More and more our politics … More

Ignorance, Political discourse, Socrates' Irony, Socrates' Method, Wisdom

Five Reasons Why Morality is Distracting and Harmful


[My comment: That’s why Dharma is a better concept than morality since it takes into account the context in which … More

Categorical imperative, Ethics, Kantian ethics, Moral philosophy, Morality

Has Western Philosophy Progressed?


Philosophy emerges as a series of arguments without end, and its questions settle into seemingly intractable problems. Here is a … More

Philosophy, Progress in philosophy, Western Philosophy

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