Why I’m getting married
I’ll begin with happy news: I’m engaged! This weekend I proposed to my beloved Caitlin, and I’m delighted to say she accepted. Now, I’ve tried to be explicit that this is a philosophy blog, not a...
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Praying to something you don’t believe in
My fiancée, who believes in God, once told me that God seems much too distant to pray to. Despite not having any Catholic background, when she feels like praying, she prays to saints. When I was in the...
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Last fall in my house we had some serious bad news: my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. (There have been a number of ways in which I have hoped to emulate Ken Wilber, but this sure wasn’t one of...
View ArticleHappiness from politics, or, mourning in America
I will be taking a break from blogging as I travel in the next couple weeks. In the meantime I would like to leave you with this. The results of the 2016 American election came as a surprise, and for...
View ArticleNussbaum’s revised view of anger
It has taken me far too long to read Martha Nussbaum’s Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice – long enough that, in characteristic Nussbaum fashion, she has already authored or...
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