This week, I have been continuing on with my research on forgiveness and regret. Last week, we took a look at the idea of whether forgiveness can ever be an obligatory act. Fricker pointed out that an insincere promise is still a promise to do something, but an insincere forgiveness…

This is a repost from my weekly meditations on Five Minute Philosophy with some minor edits. This week, I would like to speak plainly, and quite candidly on a topic near and dear to me. You see, I have problems, many people do, heck, everyone has their own demons they…

Lately, I have been angry at myself. I have made consolations with myself instead of actually following through with my own goals. With this in mind, I want to take a look at why we sometimes don’t do what we find to be the right course of action. In this…

Ispent a good part of my life learning, doing, and teaching Judo and submission grappling. I retired 2 years ago (though I am not old, I wanted to move on) and a sizeable chunk of the information I learned is gone. I achieved the rank of Nidan (second-degree black belt)…

This post is a reflection of chapter 21 of Epictetus’ “Enchiridion” as presented in the course “Epictetus’ Enchiridion — Ancient Philosophy & Peace of Mind,” specifically, this lecture by Gregory Sadler (the lecture can also be found here) As I was listening to Prof. Sadler’s lecture on Epictetus’ Enchiridion for…

There are a lot of articles that discuss Stoicism and its ability to help people through tough anxiety. The goal, they say, is to recognize and accept that the things that are determined cannot be changed, and that our anxiety comes from the very fact that we are trying to…

This article is semi meditative and semi reflective. Meditative in that I am working in a semi-train-of-thought (I have a pre-hand written overview) kind of manner, and reflective in that I am just sort of musing at things of philosophical common knowledge. I am writing in this form because, in…

These views are a very basic foundation of the views that form my worldview. I will go through them as thorough as I can, as quickly as I can. I will cover my metaphilosophy, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics and logic in this article. Before we really get…

This post is in partnership with a good friend of mine, Matthew Bugaj. We both have similar interests when it comes to Philosophy, Logic and reasoning, and in particular, the Philosophy of Mind. Generally, for a debate, many people prefer to have a structured format in a spoken recorded manner…