Author’s note: This opinion piece, which is rather philosophical than incremental in nature, is meant to be judged with the minds and hearts of those who go beyond the limits of earth and the heavens. My vain of thoughts, and nothing else are at play throughout my philosophical arguments here. The Great Fall of Humanity,…
Most people who pick up Plato’s Republic expect philosophy. What they get in the first book is something closer to a bar argument. Socrates walks into a room, gets pulled into a conversation he didn’t ask for, and ends up in a war of ideas with three very different men. Plato designed Book I as…
The present insists on its own novelty. It frames its crises as self contained, detached from deeper continuities. A potential war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran is often interpreted in this way, reduced to questions of deterrence, nuclear capability, and shifting alliances. Such a reading is not incorrect, but it is incomplete. It…
For anyone interested in politics and philosophy, there must be an understanding that we do not study these fields only to learn from them, but also to teach others how to think about power. The purpose is not to accumulate passive knowledge, but to raise awareness around virtues and vices of life. When we speak…
Invasion rarely begins as ambition, and it is almost never admitted as fear. It is instead framed as necessity that more or less has everything to do with power and nothing to do with logic. States do not describe their actions as expansion, for instance. They describe them as prevention, stabilization, or response to pressure…
The phrase “the blonde beast” comes from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and it appears most notably in his book On the Genealogy of Morality. Nietzsche used “the blonde beast” to describe a type of human being, not a race or ethnicity. He was pointing most basically to a powerful, instinct-driven individual- someone who lives…
There are men who say that war is a necessity, as though necessity were a law of nature and not a confession of failure. They speak of defense and honor and survival, and in their speech there is the comfort of order, as if by naming a thing just they have already made it so….
The Greek historian Thucydides is widely regarded as one of the earliest thinkers to explore the nature of power not as an abstract idea but as a lived and shaping force in human life. His classic work “History of the Peloponnesian War” is not only a record of conflict between Athens and Sparta but also…
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir To speak of women and the forms of knowledge they carry is to move beyond the visible markers of achievement and into a quieter, often unarticulated domain of intelligence, one that is not always codified in institutions yet persistently shapes them from within….
Most evil is done by people who never make up their minds. Hannah Arendt To speak of thinking as a public duty is to move beyond the comforting illusion that thought belongs to the private sphere, to moments of solitude, reflection, or intellectual leisure, and instead to recognize that thinking is inseparable from the conditions…