by Jason Stotts It’s interesting that when you tell people that you’re a philosopher, one of the first questions they always ask you is “What’s the meaning of Life?” as if you should automatically know the answer to this question, as if it were a prerequisite of any philosophical endeavor. Well, usually I give a [...]
by Jason Stotts I recently heard a young woman exclaim “All I want to do is be happy, I need to find something to make me happy!” This was an odd thing for me to hear as it seems as though this young woman was asking for an extrinsic source of happiness (happiness from outside [...]
by Jason Stotts So I’m in a Jr/Sr philosophy class at my school, Denison University, and the class is about Aristotle and Aquinas. The class is taught by a man who calls himself an Aristotelian, but who is truly a Thomist. Now, the class was supposed to be a way to justify his belief that [...]
