Author: Backpacking Dad

There are lots of different answers to the “How should I live?” question: Have rational rules; look after your own interests; maximize happiness/good in the world. One answer is “be virtuous”. This isn’t the same as just saying “be good”, since every answer to the “How should I live?” question can reasonably be offered as…

Philosophy, it is often remarked by philosophers who wish to remark on it, is all just a footnote to Plato. Plato is widely known as the student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and the chronicler of the various conversations Socrates had with the people of Athens. Plato wrote in dialogue form. In the early writings,…

I’m going to go ahead and say that I’m doing NaBloPoMo this year. It’s a lie. Right now it’s a lie. Maybe at the end of the month it will turn out to be true. In order to not distract myself too much from what I ought to be doing I will attempt to post…