phlogma

In this lecture, Luno patrols the border between induction and existentialism, finding a critique of analytical philosophy.
I trained formally as an analytic philosopher. Most of the philosophical literature I directly address in my writing is analytical. But my sympathies are nearly always with the existentialist and literary traditions in philosophy. My first entry into philosophy […]

From a 1984 article in Esquire entitled, “Why Men Love War”, by William Broyles Jr., a well-known screen writer and decorated Vietnam War veteran:
…Like all lust, for as long as it lasts it dominates everything else; a nation’s other problems are seared away, a phenomenon exploited by kings, dictators, and presidents since civilization began.
And I […]

The logic of the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima