Essays and Opinions

The Difficulty in Pascal’s Wager

You’ve probably heard of Pascal’s Wager, a philosophical argument created by the 17th-century philosopher and mathematician…
Monotheism With Many Gods

Roger McCann Friedrich Nietzsche’s metaphor “God is dead” is no more literally true (as claimed by…
Manto In-Between

Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Dog of Titwal’ places a mongrel in between two similarly looming hillocks where…
Shooting ‘as’ an Elephant

I was in a Literature class this morning, taught in a very engaging way. While discussing…
A commentary on T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent

“But the intellect (nous) is perhaps something more divine and unaffected (impassible).” ‘Historical sense’ is an…
…like a Dog

John Wick: Ioseph beats Wick’s dog to death, Wick’s companion in grief. Wick exacts a terrible revenge. “It’s…
Personal Emancipation Through Metaphysical Encounters: The Samaritan Woman and Nachikethas

This short essay deconstructs the idea of personal emancipation through two spiritual encounters. The first is…
“What Seek Ye?”, a brief reflection on Identity and Freedom

FC Burkitt’s claim in his preface to Schweitzer’s The Quest for the Historical Jesus, that Christianity is…
Talking about a Revolution

“I rebel, therefore I exist.” I had just finished re-reading Albert Camus’ ‘The Rebel’. Re-reading it…
Beyond Workplace Surveillance & Intrusion

A contemporary culture perspective on Well-Being @ Work through Augusto Boal’s ‘Theatre of the Oppressed‘ While…