Tending the relational field: Why we blame people when their context is starving them
As we transition into more relational ways of seeing the world, how might our understanding of responsibility shift and deepen?
Philosophy
Reflections and explorations of big ideas, ethical questions, and the frameworks that help us make sense of existence.
36 posts
The Illusion of Choice
In the search for freedom, how can we learn to see beyond the choices that have been pre-approved for us?
Comfort in Contradiction
When we pause our efforts to sever the "bad" from the "good", a whole world of beautiful paradoxes can begin to unfold.
The Unconsented Arrival
In a life we didn't choose, what would allow us to make our own decisions?
Learning to live in the absurd
In a world that is often beyond our comprehension, much less our control, what does it mean to find freedom?
Why "everything is connected" can make you miserable
Is the weight of existential dread a sign we should turn back, or simply the growing pains of a new perspective?
The Breaking and Making of Consciousness
As a door closes on what we once thought certain and settled, what new realities might our eyes open to?
A Slice of EveryThing
Sketching a new, yet familiar myth on which to build a thriving society.
Academia as a people's civil service: or, what we've done to knowledge
Perhaps what we know is less important than what we do with it.