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Mad In Pursuit And In Possession So: Humanity’s Quest for Knowing
Tinkering with things can be so fulfilling. Ever since I was little, I always appreciated how things can, somehow, magically function with each other to create something that could function in our lives. The freedom offered from taking things apart…
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To Begin Again
Life, naturally, is a one-time ordeal. As far as we know, the lives we’re currently experiencing and shaping are irrevocable and unchanged by whatever we do with ours. Thus, all of our musings or questions about why, how, where, and…
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The Curious Case of the Reading Philosopher
How can we possibly imagine a world without books? Well, there would be one glaring consequence of that: you wouldn’t be able to read what I’m writing (or really typing — which proves my point!) because if we live in…
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Nescio Quid: Quick Discourse And Empathy
If you were to sum up almost every major event within the past couple of months — if you were able to catch up with anything — in one word, my candidate would be chaos. Now, I don’t mean chaos…
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The Machiavellian Chimera: On Power in Modern Politics
Consider the following thought experiment: you are an interviewer wanting to know more about the dynamics of major world powers—including those warring against each other—and for a significant project for your media agency, you decide to assemble all those leaders…
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Elusive Yet Attainable: On Beauty
I couldn’t resist museum-going. I just can’t! Yes, for the second time in a row, I’m posting about museums. And no, I don’t know if this trend will stop anytime soon! But there’s an inherent sense within me that naturally…
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That’s So Thingly
When I was about 11 years old (or somewhere around that specific time in my life), I was more interested than ever in the arts, especially the visual ones. Some of my earliest childhood memories that I can still easily…
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Candide’s Sufficiency
It’s an established fact that life is ridiculous. At one time or another, we all have been privy to such occurrences without prior warning and – often – at the most inconvenient times. Life’s spontaneity might quickly become unbearable to…
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Happiness Is A Warm, Uh, Thought?
When one confronts the philosophy major, there are usually plenty of individuals who think that it’s a pretty cool thing to study (which, in my case, is {thankfully} quite skewed towards this opinion), yet at some time in the philosopher’s…
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