Being Alone in Hard Times
As clearly depicted in the film Home Alone, the problem is not that we are alone; the problem is who we are with when we are alone.
How Anxiety Becomes a Cultural Norm
When our response to the other is shaped by a significant measure of anxiety, it is likely also to include a significant measure of aggression.
The Problem of Character in our Current Political Climate
What Trump attempts to do, and to a significant degree succeeds in doing, is purging thinking and deliberation from his world. This is especially evident in his attack on the thinking organs of public life…
Who Cares? Part II
If what we mean by “welfare” is the presence in the individual of….inner freedom, then it is inner freedom that leads us to care….
Who Cares? Part I
If being alive does not matter to us, securing that state for others will not matter to us either.
On Caring
What to make of these terms and phrases: caring, modes, projects, burden of caring?