Considering three socioeconomic realities which might manifest thought differently. We are told that it is important to be educated, but then the day comes when we are told that we need to be pragmatic and not believe we can solve all our problems by thinking about them. We are told…

An Essay on “Hume to Hegel,” Connecting Belonging Again (Part I) to The Absolute Choice How does philosophy begin? For Socrates, it began in wonder, and though Hume would agree that “true philosophy” can be cultivated and developed in such, Hume disagrees that “true philosophy” is the only philosophy. More…

A Collection Possible Thanks to Friends Our identities, religions, nationalities, occupations, life choices, philosophies, political ideologies, political leaders — none of these are “given” anymore: whatever we face, we find ourselves full of questions. “Is this true? Is this best? Is this valid?” We live during what James Joyce in…

How there is hierarchy yet harmony. “The Three Infinites” are classically beauty, truth, and goodness, and we ultimately require all three or else we end up in privation and perversion. In this, they are all in a sense equal, and yet there is another sense in which beauty is higher…

The Fallacy of Good Motives, Fencing, and Problematic Invincibility What is intention as opposed to motivation? When I intend to visit my friend, it could indeed be the case that I am also motivated to see my friend, but if all “intention” means is “motivation,” there doesn’t seem to be…

Exploring On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein A prime way humans preserve ideology is with “certainty,” and yet we learn in “On Certainty” by O.G. Rose that certainty is mostly impossible, so what’s going on? Well, it might be that “certainty” isn’t so much a term that describes the likelihood that…

Considering the first four essays together. The first set of essays in The Map Is Indestructible have meant to highlight ways in which humans naturally “map-make,” though I don’t mean to suggest that there are not other means (such as those described by Žižek) — my hope is only to…

On How What We Think Impacts How We Feel and Vice-Versa Worldviews orientate emotions as emotions orientate worldviews. There is a dialectic between how we feel about the world and how we see it: what we feel about x impacts how we think about x, and vice-versa. Our heart and…

Does freedom cause wealth or wealth cause freedom? …As we’ve been circling, in my view, one of the most important questions in economics is if freedom causes prosperity or if prosperity causes freedom. Yes, it’s clear in free markets that the answer is “both,” for once the “cycle” and “market”…