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Red Letter Philosophy

Sep 27, 2019

The British Empiricist, David Hume, wrote:  "reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will”.  If Hume is right, and the thing that separates us from the beasts, our ability to reason, is not enough to help us navigate the the chaotic seas of life, then to what or whom should we turn?

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Sep 20, 2019

Filled with amazement and terror by this apparition of a horseman in the sky - half believing himself the chosen scribe of some new Apocalypse, [he] was overcome by the intensity of his emotions; his legs failed him and he fell.”  So goes the classic take of a moral dilemma by Ambrose Bierce. This week, as an...


Sep 13, 2019

In our thinking and in our doing we presume that life is meaningful.  We believe our decisions matters.  We believe our lives matter.  We assume there really is a right and wrong and that it's all going somewhere... somewhere that matters.  In short, we believe that life is not futile.  This season we explore and draw...