In the grim darkness of the immediate present, there is only despair (Warning: people struggling with depression and/or suicidal ideation may want to avoid reading this article) Let’s not kid ourselves. We’re pretty f****d aren’t we? Where to begin…how about a run-down of the present moment we’re in? It is October in the year of our Dark Lord 2020. At this time there are more…

In the 21st century modern social science is suffering from what appears to be a fatal flaw, the is-ought problem. First described by the 18th century philosopher David Hume, the is-ought problem is also known as the Hume’s law or the fact-value gap. In short, the is-ought problem can be…

While the world continues to go through its usual paces and people seem content to be glued to their smart phones, a looming threat to the world has appeared on the horizon: climate change. Does that sound exaggerated and alarmist to you? It is possible that your unfavorable reaction to…

In his ancient classic The Republic, Plato writes his Allegory of the Cave. In this allegory, we learn Plato’s conceptualization of the human condition, which is analogous to people watching shadows being cast on a cave wall, believing those shadows to be reality. Plato describes to us how through the…

For having been an outspoken Marxist, Alexandre Kojeve was quite different from an average member of the socialist intelligentsia. Alexandre leaned heavily on the importance of the individual; in some ways making him much closer to a Western philosopher than a Marxist or Eastern philosopher. When it came to the…