Month: June 2019

Thomas Szasz once said in his flagship work, The Myth of Mental Illness, that we should strive to be “Students of Life”. In my journey as one I will be frequently updating this site and simply speaking the truth about what I believe. Here is what you can expect for the upcoming months… My studies…

Is it Possible to Know Anything?

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(Written April 2019) An essay on Epistemology When the question of whether it is possible to truly know something is postulated, I don’t doubt that many people will be puzzled, as it seems the question has such an obvious answer. For example, can you know that you are reading this paper right now? Can you…

Is it Just to Break an Unjust Law?

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(Written Feb. 2019) A short comparison of the views of Plato and Martin Luther King Jr. I usually squirm in my seat when forced to make a universal statement (see how I phrased that?); they are just so binding in my opinion. When one says that it is just to break an unjust law, they…

Abortion

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(Written Feb. 2019) Before you read on, let me lay out the purpose of this paper. I am not arguing for either one of the sides in this debate, my interest is in the arguments themselves. I hope that this paper will stimulate respectful debate, and help each of us see the arguments on both…

The Unexamined Life

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates One of Socrates’s most famous quotes, he says it during his trial and it appears in Plato’s Apology. Carl Jung also made a similar statement when he said, “Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.” But what do these great thinkers mean? Yesterday when I…

The Journey Begins

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