A Page Turning Prayer: Reviewing Jim Johnstone’s ‘Dog Ear’

There exists a quote by Leonard Cohen regarding Charles Bukowski that struck me in my adolescence, “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” For the much-accomplished Jim Johnstone, award-winning Toronto poet and author of Dog Ear, I would say the opposite is true—his work elevates us: ‘Bringing the ghetto uptown’, so to speak—fitting …

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What Do We Mean? On Frege’s ‘Sense & Reference’

There are many theories surrounding the meanings of words and names: some are simple and some are complex; some are well defined and some are poorly explained by their creators. The theory I will be discussing in this paper is that of Frege and his idea of the ‘sense’ of a word. In my understanding …

An Exegetic Essay Concerning Niccolò Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’

A prince is not necessarily one of noble blood; a prince is one of power, often ignoble, and often bathed in the blood of those more deserving than he to wield it. Nevertheless, a prince is not distinguished by worth, nor by wealth--not by high birth nor by good health; a prince is distinguished by …

Anti-Social Personality: Disorder, Discipline, and Development

It seems reasonable to assert that, as society develops in more complex directions, we (or, 'Selves’), as the individual components of a society, will also experience development. Ideally, over the course of the centuries, humans should progress in reflection of our developing societies; and we should also reflect those values that our societies hold dear. …

On Autonomy

As we attempt to construct a universally applicable standard of morality, we inevitably encounter the highly debatable issue of autonomy: namely, questions arise such as ‘what is the nature of autonomy?’ or ‘are we really autonomous at all?’. These questions are of the utmost importance to a system of ethics in which every individual is …