Newsletter: July 2025 - David Egan Philosophy
Seeing myself from a physiological point of view deepens my sense of what it means to be a human animal whose mind is part of a larger whole.| David Egan Philosophy
Seeing myself from a physiological point of view deepens my sense of what it means to be a human animal whose mind is part of a larger whole.| David Egan Philosophy
We can imagine worlds that are factually very different from our own. But we strongly resist imagining worlds that are morally very different.| David Egan Philosophy
Spinoza's Ethics offers a radical revisioning of God, human existence, and the world that reads like a coldly rational geometric proof.| David Egan Philosophy
Sentimental artworks, and the people who indulge in them, are disappointingly incurious about the emotions involved. If the emotions are rational, and if they inform our thinking and deliberation, they warrant critical scrutiny every bit as much as thought does. The post Newsletter: April 2025 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
The peculiar predicament of philosophy, according to Wittgenstein, is that we speak under the illusion that we’re making sense when in fact we’re mouthing empty words. The illusion of saying something profound is beguiling, which is why puncturing it, as he sees it, requires strength of character more than it requires intellect. The post Newsletter: March 2025 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
An ethics that recognizes the centrality of trust emphasizes our vulnerability and our interdependence. It also emphasizes the importance of discretion in our dealings with one another. The post Newsletter: February 2025 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
Most philosophers want to get to settled answers. The ironist, by contrast, speaks in the voice of Gertrude Stein: “There ain’t no answer. There ain’t going to be an answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.” The post Newsletter: January 2025 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
You can also find the beauty of travel in your own literal backyard (if you have one), on any city street, in a shopping mall, in a diner. That experience of being lifted outside of time, of seeing the world around you as strange and wonderful—you don’t need to book time off from work or get on a plane to experience it. You can find it right here and right now. The post Newsletter: December 2024 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
Outrage is the pleasure that dare not speak its name. As much as it’s bound up in feelings of anger and slighted justice, feelings of outrage are deeply satisfying. The post Newsletter: November 2024 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
If human social life is more densely structured and institutionalized than the social lives of other animals, that’s due at least in part to the fact that we’re very playful animals. The post Newsletter: October 2024 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
