An education in suffering
In 2017 I traveled to Colombia to meet my biological family. One afternoon as I was standing in the courtyard of my paternal grandparents’ home, watching some local children assemble … Continue reading
January 14, 2018 · Leave a comment
A balanced life: Appropriate technology and community development in den Ouden’s ‘Are Freedom and Dignity Possible?’
If a hastily put-together profile on LinkedIn is to be believed, Bernard den Ouden was a professor of philosophy at the University of Hartford from 1969 until 2012. A friend … Continue reading
August 22, 2015 · 2 Comments
Sex, Love, Morality: Everything you need to know about Bertrand Russell’s ‘Marriage and Morals’
“Cruelty is in theory a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. When the most eminent of all film stars was divorced … Continue reading
July 31, 2015 · 1 Comment
Think Out Loud 