On the Necessity of Solitude for Abiding in the Truth
A Philosophical Happy Hour inquiring into the nature of solitude and its role for our intellectual lives: not as that whereby truth is merely discovered, but by which we abide in it. Two weeks ago, we asked in our Philosophical Happy Hour how and why it is that friendship is necessary for discovering the good. […]
On Listening
What immediate irony! Reading about listening. Indeed, we all tend to do far more reading, I suspect, than we do listening. That often we read poorly does not take away from the fact that we read continually. For a great many of us, the nature of work, study, and even distraction often involves a discernment […]
