Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, andContinue Reading

There is a passage in Plato, when Crito is trying to convince Socrates to flee Athens, when suddenly the Laws of State become personified and argue why Socrates ought to stay and suffer his sentence of death. The Laws of State argue simply and truly that were he to flee,Continue Reading

Scientists have revealed that quarks and bosons and subatomic stuff are matter, popping in and out of existence. Sometimes they endure: as evidenced by some pattern that helps them exist for a bit. That pattern is qualia. Matter is manifested in patterns, patterns around which the matter forms; the patternsContinue Reading