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Thoughts on Forgiveness
I Some years ago, a group of people visited my school to talk about forgiveness, and to promote its role, as they put it, in ‘breaking the cycle of violence and revenge.’ They pointed out, quite...
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Schopenhauer on Writing
“There are, first of all, two kinds of authors,” says Schopenhauer in his essay ‘On Authorship and Style’: “those who write for the subject’s sake, and those who write for writing’s sake.” The first...
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Woody Allen on the Emptiness of Life
In the final scene of Manhattan, Woody Allen’s character, Isaac, is lying on the sofa with a microphone and a tape-recorder, dictating to himself an idea for a short story. It’ll be about “people in...
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Philosophy and Problems
What’s the nature of a philosophical problem? How do philosophical problems present themselves? In what manner, in what guise? Are certain kinds of questions inherently problematic, philosophical? If...
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The Gospel According to Tolstoy
Before reading Tolstoy’s Gospel in Brief, I was unsure as to whether I agreed with his project. It didn’t seem necessary to rewrite the Gospels so as to present Jesus’ teaching more intelligibly,...
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