Existentialism
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The late Steven Weinberg had a wonderful comment about life and the human condition in his book, The First Three Minutes: ‘The more the universe seems comprehensible,’ he wrote, ‘the more it also seems pointless.’ I’m sympathetic with his view about the god-of-the-gaps. Truth be told, I consider myself agnostic; I don’t know for certain
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Outside of science, one of my favourite things to study as a hobby is history. I also deeply enjoy and appreciate philosophy. One thing I’ve learned in my time studying history and philosophy is that, when judged alongside the human character (insofar that we may establish such a generalisation), democracy is a system that perhaps
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My first book, Consciousness and Revolt, which is long extinct now, fated to reside on but a few dusty shelves, was written almost like an existential treatise. It sought to analyse patterns and trends in relation to human behaviour throughout history, focusing in particular on the reoccurrence of popular forms of orthodoxy and the epistemology
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The theme of self-deceptive thought amounts to little more than the human ability to function in the mode of believing a particular lie whilst simultaneously not believing that lie. In Being and Nothingness Sartre tackles this human complexity—the human ability to be self-deceptive, through what he considers to be the phenomenon of ‘bad faith’. To
Dialogues at still points 