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The Art of Sitting Alone in a Room
Pascal the famed mathematician and philosopher once said that sometimes he thinks that all the problems in the world are because people cannot bear to sit alone in a room. There is a lot of wisdom to that. Why must we always be busy doing things? Well, we have got to work, to be productive,Continue reading “The Art of Sitting Alone in a Room”
We are living in a Manichean world, and I am a Manichean girl
Unfortunately, many songs are burned in my memory from the 1980’s. “Walk like an Egyptian” by so and so and “Material Girl” by somebody will forever have a place in my recollections. If anything, “Material Girl” captures the empirical spirit of our age. So many well meaning people think that whatever is not material isContinue reading “We are living in a Manichean world, and I am a Manichean girl”
The Mandalorian and Moral Relativism
G.K. Chesterton once said, “there is a thought that stops all thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.” Relativism, the idea that there is no objective truth or moral goodness, is one such thought. I just finished watching Mandalorian season 2, and, interestingly, the final episode brings up this issue. (TriggerContinue reading “The Mandalorian and Moral Relativism”
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