I want to talk about the burden of modesty and the conflict with honesty which results from this. By modesty is meant a somewhat vague concept which I will attempt […]

This is a battle that has remained half-formed in my mind for a while now and is constantly struggling for elucidation and seems to pose itself as a stumbling-block to […]

Solipsism is the view that I am the only entity to whom it is justifiable to ascribe existence. This is based on the fact that this entire world, as it […]

I want to ask now an infinitely more difficult question than those that I have asked before, namely why does suffering have negative value? Is this simply a delusion and […]

What is the value of truth? I have determined that running away from suffering is the result of a delusion. This delusion consists in the belief that there is a […]

Where does the value of a thing originate from? In particular, perhaps the question I mean to ask is: what is the value of truth? What is the value of […]

One thing I have been thinking a lot about lately is the idea of self-confidence. In order to become good at something, one must start by being bad at it […]

Kant’s categorical imperative is just a reformulation of the Golden Rule. Discuss. As the centre-piece of Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy, the categorical imperative is the maxim that rational beings should […]

Continuing to Answer the Free Will Dilemma: I have addressed the question of whether or not beliefs about an agent’s autonomy can provoke a behavioural difference and have concluded that […]

1. How is self-knowledge of the will achievable? Is it only accidental, or can it be willed? 2. Isn’t resignation the only sensible thing given the subject’s lack of autonomy? […]

I’ll talk here about one major theme that has begun to creep up on me and it is the question about whether or not it is ethical to kill microorganisms, […]

“Life is certain to the will-to-live; the form of life is the endless present” This statement seems to contain within it the answer to a question I posed recently, namely, […]

I want to now examine the difference between interpreting phenomena in terms of persons and interpreting them in terms of nature as a whole. I am beginning to see that […]

Am I free? Well, I need to first define the concept “free” clearly before I can proceed. There can arise several very dire confusions as regards this issue if the […]