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This is the second part of me trying to explain the truth I wish to find. This post is about the self-reflection in a years long process regarding my past hypocritical and egoistical self. However, I highly suggest you to read my first part in order for this post to seem coherent. Plus, your...

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There is in the works of Aristotle a medullary idea, which escaped the perception of almost all his readers and commentators, from Antiquity until today. Even those who perceived it — and there were only two, as far as I know, over the millennia — limited themselves to writing it down in passing...

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My generation, born in the 80s, received an education based on a Newtonian-Cartesian worldview: everything was clear, logical, predictable, like a giant clockwork mechanism. Analytical thinking was a value in itself. Experience gave us space in which we learned to search for and find connections...

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There’s a particular confusion that crops up alot, that confuses the existence of markets, with the existence of capitalism. But the two are not the same, not by a long shot. So this is a thread to try and clear up some things on this front. Markets: Impersonal Exchange First, what is a market? A...

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If A⟹B, with A=Asking a question, and B=If A, then someone exists, so C, with C=There is not nothing because A. Is this chain of reasoning valid? The chain of reasoning progresses to the conclusion that, “Existence is a necessary condition for a question to be asked.” The structure of the argument...

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