Philosophy & Ethics
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Choices Below the Waterline
Photo by Francis Odeyemi on Unsplash I hear the neighbors screaming over the sound of the rain on asphalt shingles above me, not quite enough to drown out the volume… Read more.
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Unannounced
Photo by Pascal Meier on Unsplash Author’s Note There are five love languages, or so I’ve been told; acts of service, words of affirmation, physical touch, quality time, and gifts.… Read more.
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The Shape That Wields the Hammer
Photo by Pim de Boer on Unsplash I was there when the order was spoken. Not in the hall where the gods postured and argued about threats, but in the… Read more.
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Clair Obscur: On Choice and Creation
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash I stand where the light is strongest because this is where I was taught to stand. Someone placed it here long before I arrived,… Read more.
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Built Not to Burn
Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash You never forget the sound if you’re unlucky enough to hear it. A sharp mechanical click, a rising hiss, the feeling of the air… Read more.
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In the Absence of Certainty
Photo by Roméo A. on Unsplash It always begins with something that seems simple. A book, or a story. A puzzle you think you can solve. I read Vellum the… Read more.
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Who We Became to Survive Here
Photo by Vince Fleming on Unsplash It always starts the same way. A small room. A flickering desk lamp. A webcam just out of focus, softening everything it touches. You… Read more.
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The Price of A Choice
Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash It starts with a sound you’ve heard a thousand times: they’re arguing in the next room again, voices sharp enough to make the air… Read more.
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To Belong, Not Last
Photo by VENUS MAJOR on Unsplash He had stopped fighting months ago. Not because he had given up, but because he had made peace with the horizon. The cancer had… Read more.
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Forged in Witness
Photo by Zuzana Kacerová on Unsplash He’d been asked the question a thousand times in a thousand years, but it still caught him off guard when the barista said it… Read more.
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The God We Hate: On Money, Desire, and the Illusion of Freedom
Photo by Robert Thiemann on Unsplash They said the well had no bottom. That it swallowed prayers and promises alike, and that the only sound one ever heard after casting… Read more.
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The Sanity of Stars: On Madness, Creation, and the Price of Seeing
Photo by Alex on Unsplash Author’s Note The following introduction is a work of historical fiction, drawn from Van Gogh’s letters, medical records, and the recollections of those who knew… Read more.
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Ends and Means and the Soul Between
Photo by Ricardo Rocha on Unsplash My wife has a gift for focus that I’ve always admired. She decides what she wants, defines the steps, and then methodically walks through… Read more.
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To Feed the Fire
Photo by Perry Merrity II on Unsplash Dawn crept over the temple in a slow, deliberate unveiling. The air was thick with the scent of copal and iron. Smoke curled… Read more.
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The Moral Horizon
Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash They do not feel the walls closing in. That is the trick of this new architecture. The trap isn’t built of stone or… Read more.
