Tag: truth

  • Memory, truth, love; or, knowledge in the ethical response

    What is the role of memory (or knowledge or epistemology) in ethics? Is learning or knowing necessary in being ethical? Here is a thought experiment on memory and relations or interactions. Going about the day in a mall while waiting for a particular time, you started feeling thirsty. You decided to go to a coffee…

  • Philosophical value

    I am tempted to titled this as On romanticising philosophy for the idea came from this notion of the apparent ‘uses’ or ‘values’ of philosophy. Now I do not intend to defend my love for philosophy, and it may perhaps be due my own experience in coming into philosophy that I found absolutely nothing wrong…

  • Of thanks

    I think I am going to start with the closer, smaller things first: those that I have loved since childhood but had been left there since, and the little parts of my day-to-day. One at a time. There is always the pressure to go bigger, do more, magis—but I have been learning that magis means…

  • So the Meaning of Life Is

    So the Meaning of Life Is

    …something we have been trying to figure out. Don’t we? Don’t we all? Here’s the weekly life/self bootleg lecture from your resident philo and psych majors on leave-of-absence! We’re also on Spotify! Listen to both parts there by clicking this logo: Or on Spotify by clicking the image below: We’re also on Twitter @WeDashDigress and on Instagram @wedashdigress.…