Year: 2007

  • Atheists and christians

    by Jason Stotts One interesting, but often overlooked, consequence of christianity is the idea that any set of beliefs must be based on faith and is, therefore, a religion. This leads christians to say absurd things such as people who do not believe in god are atheists. If this does not seem to be a…

  • An All Too Common Confusion

    by Jason Stotts I often hear people make fail to make a distinction between two drastically different things: Intelligence and Knowledge. Intelligence is a capacity for thinking and reasoning; it is analogous to a motor. Whereas knowledge is having actual understanding of facts and justified theories; it is analogous to fuel. When one calls someone…

  • A Hymn to Death

    by Jason Stotts I am going to die and I’m glad of it. I have never understood those who live their lives constantly dreading their mortality, as though the fact that they were going to die meant that they should never actually live. While clearly death is the end of life, death is not antithetical…

  • What Causes Sexual Desire?

    by Jason Stotts It’s interesting how some phenomena defy all explanation. These mysteries are then handed down, from thinker to thinker, throughout the ages waiting to be unraveled; waiting for a true philosopher. It matters not how many, nor how often, mediocrities rail against these mysteries: they rail in vain, for the mysteries of the…

  • The Danger of “What If?”

    by Jason Stotts Hypotheticals are dangerous. Epistemologically, one should only ever consider an idea for which there exists some evidence. This epistemological principle gives rise to the logical principle of the onus of proof, which states that if one posits a positive position, then one is required to show some evidence for that position. Failing…

  • Aporia: Threesomes

    by Jason Stotts I’ve long been interested in the moral ramifications of a threesome and for just as long I have been unable to come to any firm judgement on the issue. Frankly, as I sit down to write this, I have no idea if a threesome is moral or not; which is not really…

  • Le Finale

    I am officially joining forces with my girlfriend M. to start a new blog named Erosophia. The idea is that with two authors, the blog will be published to more frequently. Also, we are very unified in our philosophical positions, so a fan of one of us will likely like the other as well –…

  • Just Money

    by Jason Stotts Today, money is no longer understood. Few understand why saying “it is just money” epitomizes decadence. Money is merely thought of as a tool of value commensuration: a means of equalizing disparate goods through a common standard. It is this, but also so much more. When I work, I trade my time…