A Nonfiction Book by O.G. Rose
Can rationality bring us together?
Could rationality unify and stabilize us, enabling us to “belong again?” This is the arguably the hope of the Enlightenment, the spirit of which still lives with us today. I believe many of us can’t help but think that if we could just get people…
A Paper Featured in Cultivating Aesthetic Sensibilities by O.G. Rose, Inspired by Thomas Jockin
A hanging question that individualistic mythology conceals and that comparing three different translations of The Republic can help us understand if not escape.
Memory is a funny thing, and we all know it’s prone to change with time. Details fade, episodes arise which never happened, and huge gaps can appear…
Book II in The True Isn’t the Rational trilogy by O.G. Rose
Are we who we think we are?
Are we who we think we are? In Hegel, every “re” is “(re),” meaning that we never “remember” something, for what we “bring back to us” in our minds is different from what we experienced. There is no “re” in life, only newness…
A Short Piece Featured in The Map Is Indestructible by O.G. Rose
What is best will feel like oppression if we don’t believe it is best when it is forced on us, but what other option is there if we lose the ability to tell what is best?
Let us assume “x is what’s best” but that we are not persuaded x…
A Discussion Between Cadell Last, O.G. Rose, Alexander Elung, and Alexander Bard
Can we think our being?
On October 20, 2021, Cadell Last, Alexander Elung, Alexander Bard, and myself engaged in a discussion on “returning to metaphysics.” It was a delightful conversation, and below are a few notes, thoughts, fragments, and elaborations, though in no way whatsoever is the below meant to…
Inspired by Reality & Emergence, a dialogue w/ Gregg Henriques & Tim Adalin
How everything in the universe isn’t just “like a computer,” but “computation” is still the term we tend to use almost exclusively these days, because technologies shape and “capture” our metaphors.
Does our brain work like a computer? That language is often used, but computers don’t exist in nature, so…
Section Three of The Breaking of the Day by O.G. Rose
The Failures of Heroes and Readers, and the Existential Solution Leading to Abraham
There is a story of a donkey caught between two equally sized piles of grain. Because the piles of grain are the same size, the donkey cannot decide which to eat from, and so the donkey starves…
A NONFICTION BOOK BY O.G. ROSE
Does the State train us to love humanity more than individuals?
“How does the Cosmopolitan belong (again)?” — on this question, so far, we have established that fixing democracy will help soften the tensions of the State which all are increasingly “toward.” This will help Cosmopolitans feel more at rest…
A Short Piece on a Dialogue Between Johannes A. Niederhauser and James Poulos
Are we still human if we don’t remember being human?
This reflection will assume you’ve watched the dialogue; otherwise, some context will prove missing.
Johannes A. Niederhauser and James Poulos recently discussed the difficulty of staying human, and, like everything…
O.G. Rose
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