Interested Reader-- In previous articles I have made much of human nature as foundational for the constitution of any political society. Largely, I have illustrated such nature via the Thucydidean Three of fear, honor and profit. But what of the...

Interested Reader-- I rarely post quotes; this is an exception. I thought I might pass along a passage from Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization. Often-overlooked but never out of date, placating, narrow, "timely" or otherwise chalk-full of the...

Interested Reader-- Why love truth and wisdom? The philosopher loves truth; or what he perceives to be truth. He loves it enough that he pursues it at the expense of that which he knows would advance him more "profitably". Or he gets himself into...

Interested Reader-- If we desire to understand the philosophy of history before historicism, to borrow a phrase from Nadel, we must ask after the questions of those who pursued "history" before the historical science of the nineteenth century. The...

Interested Reader-- Consider the system- v. problem-thinker. Both desire to fundamentally understand phenomena about us. Perhaps they limit themselves to the human condition. How will they attempt it? Let us forgo speaking of the philosophical...