Featured Archives

Pragmatic Truth Existentialsim Pragmatism William James Henri Bergson Jean-Paul Sartre

The Pragmatic Truth of Existentialism

August 24, 2020August 28, 2020 Donovan Irven 0 Comments Essential Reading, Existentialism, Henri Bergson, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pragmatism, Truth, William James 16 min read

With culture wars focusing more on the nature of truth, the time is ripe to consider the connection between pragmatism and existentialism.

Power One Idea William James Pragmatism John Kaag Sick Souls Healthy Minds Erraticus

(Jeffrey Howard)

Essays Featured Philosophy

The Power of One Idea

June 24, 2020June 26, 2020 Jeffrey Howard 2 Comments Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Pragmatism, William James 16 min read

William James offers a way to evaluate the fruitfulness of ideas by tethering them to the common ground of lived experience.

Atomization Social Technologists Solve the Alienation Crisis Totalizing Communities

Essays Featured Science & Tech

Can Social Technologists Solve the Atomization Problem?

January 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Jonah Bennett 1 Comment Atomization, Community, Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Liberalism 9 min read

To address rising atomization and alienation, we must account for radical inadequacy and experiment with more totalizing communities.

(Brett Sayles)

Featured Ideas Society & Culture

We’re Overdoing Democracy. But Why?

December 23, 2019June 1, 2020 Kevin Vallier 0 Comments Democracy, Essential Reading, Polarization, Politics 6 min read

Society has become so politically-saturated that we’re now overdoing democracy. Here are a few reasons why it undermines our institutions.

The Dude Abides Pragmatism Nihilism Deontology 3

(Universal Pictures)

Arts Essays Featured

The Dude Abides: Pragmatism as an Alternative to Deontology and Nihilism

November 14, 2019May 27, 2020 Matthew Downhour 0 Comments Deontology, Essential Reading, Film, Friedrich Nietzsche, Judaism, Nihilism, Pragmatism 16 min read

Stuck in the conflict between two worldviews, the Dude offers a pragmatic third way forward for the postmodern world.

Essays Featured Psychology

How Deconstructing Anxiety Makes Transcendence Possible

November 8, 2019March 1, 2020 Todd E. Pressman 0 Comments Emotional Well-being, Transcendence, Truth 10 min read

With the understanding that fear is the fundamental problem in being human, we have our starting point. To pursue this quest, we must fully deconstruct anxiety, reveal its origins and mechanism, and find its resolution.

Choosing Pessimism Over Romanticism Review The School of Life Sean Kong Erraticus

Essays Featured Psychology

‘The School of Life’ Preaches Pessimism over Romanticism

November 5, 2019March 12, 2020 Jeffrey Howard 0 Comments Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Well-being, Emotions, Essential Reading, Romanticism, Schooling 12 min read

‘The School of Life’ is on a crusade to avail us of our emotional ignorance. Philosopher Alain De Botton seeks to remedy the shortcomings of contemporary education systems and the institutions that have failed to instruct us in how to approach the big questions in life.