This is the first of two essays about Spinoza's philosophy and its application to other thinkers and other thoughts. The essay below this one is focused on the contemporary state of ecological imagination, and this one is devoted primarily to re-interpreting Spinoza and Romanticism together, with just passing, though hopefully insightful, reflection on the current day.  Read More

Hey all. I've moved in and am attending classes, 2nd year university! Yay! English and Philosophy are fun! Here are some thoughts I wrote after thinking about a philosophy lecture.  Read More

(Herein is a final essay for an introductory ethics class I took this preceding spring semester; my choice for writing topic. I have edited to make the flow of ideas cleaner and clearer. ((It wasn't an A+ paper :)))
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"All over the earth, faces of all living things are alike. Mother earth has turned these faces out of the earth with tenderness. Oh Great Spirit behold them, all these faces with children in their hands." Standing Bear, Lakota

May we remember and revere the primacy of life,
and lovingly care for and make free the children in our hands
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.Is this the innocent face like of any cultural psychotic??
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.I think so, myself :)
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What is the world and its life to be for? What is it that we seek by name of freedom? What are we to make as our social objective, and what form of balance do we value as the basis for peaceful relation? A prevalently lived out response to these questions is known to be destroying diversity in our ecosystem and society.

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