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Plato’s Dualism and the Priority of the Intelligible World
What is philosophy, when it’s not Socrates asking a lot of questions? It is the exercise of reason. We apply our intellectual powers to a problem and try to think it through. Plato, a student of Socrates, slowly moves into this realm of pure thinking. This shift in emphasis leads Plato to make an important discovery: there is a world that we see with our eyes and a world that we see with our minds. […]
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Relative Moral Certainty
Many judgements about the morally impossible will remain epistemically ambiguous and subject to change over time. Many philosophers who do not share my metaethical perspective will think this is a problem for any claims about moral necessity. But I think the issue of epistemic ambiguity actually reinforces my point, rather than weakening it, because this epistemic ambiguity is always relative to something more certain. […]
An experiment with philosophy as a way of life
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