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Tag: metaphysics

  • To be god is to be dead

    An old professor in my university notably begins a discussion with this question: if you were to one day wake up with the utmost certainty that there is no god, would anything change? The answers, predictably, can range from “nothing” to “everything”. The extent of the possibilities is what I find intriguing. Of course, something…

  • “What makes life worth living?”

    “What makes life worth living?”

    At the root of many moral and ethical enquiries is the question “What makes life worth living?” The question comes in various forms, such as “What does it mean to live a good life?” or “How can one be a good person?” In the end, if it equates something good with something worthwhile, then the…

  • What is [good/bad] philosophy?

    What is [good/bad] philosophy?

    Maybe this is something that we can think about for now. What is good philosophy? What is bad philosophy? My initial idea is to simply Google the question off and see what others have said. However, maybe let us first try to see what we have learned in our last year and a half of…

  • What does it take for one to live a good life?

    What does it take for one to live a good life?

    What does it take for one to live a good life? I think I remember writing an essay with a similar title some time ago, around when I was working on the first module of my Advanced Reflexive Metaphysics course. Do I even remember my answer back then? I wonder how much has changed. Maybe…

  • Of Questions and Questioning

    Of Questions and Questioning

    Let us look at the great metaphysical question of “How does Nothing become Something?” Or if we were to translate it into a more pragmatic phrasing, we can say: “How does one go from not writing into completing a written thing?” At the moment, two ways of going about this case comes to mind. The…

  • Things to do

    Have I been unconsciously making things harder for myself in this going against my Judging nature? Is this not nature—my nature—that I write things as a list and follow through them in well-constructed cycles? That I take three or more moments contemplating whether a system is in its best possible form before I do any…