Category: Choices

When French exis­ten­tial­ist philoso­pher Jean-Paul Sartre coined the phrase “bad faith,” he was refer­ring to any form of self-decep­­tion that denies the exis­tence of human free­dom. When some­one says he “had no choice,” this points direct­ly to an illu­sion, for Sartre con­tend­ed that we always have a choice; even in not choos­ing we make one.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Bad Faith

This is an emo­tion­al time for Amer­i­cans — what with the mar­kets crash­ing and the wan­ing days of the pres­i­den­tial cam­paigns. The air­waves are full of com­men­tary into the mean­ing of every small move on either sub­ject. And at every turn there is anoth­er sat­u­rat­ing bar­rage of side-tak­ing opin­ion. It is so appar­ent that our… Con­tin­ue read­ing Our Civ­il War

There’s a well-known leg­end about two wolves: A Chero­kee elder was teach­ing his chil­dren about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to them. “It is a ter­ri­ble fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil — he is anger, envy, sor­row, regret, greed, arro­gance, self-pity, guilt, resent­ment, infe­ri­or­i­ty, lies,… Con­tin­ue read­ing The One You Feed