We all have them. They’re what drive us, what we strive for. What we sometimes have to give up. What we set up as provisional ideals, goals, projects. What guide us through difficult decisions. What we ponder over. What we die for (or from).
When our ideals differ from those of others, we have values for [...]
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Values
Posted in Being, Capitalism, Ethics, Philosophy, global warming on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Summer Ponderings, Existential Crisis, Meaning and Purpose
Posted in Being, Body Phenomenology, Capitalism, Ethics, God, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Technology, Things, beginning, global warming on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Back in touch”
This summer I have not spent much time reading and writing. In other words, I have not done much philosophy. I’ve found myself wondering, “What is the point of philosophy?”, “What is philosophy for?”. Of course, easy and bad answers to these questions exist. The usual solution is to posit some principle which [...]
Serra’s Shift
Posted in Being, Body Phenomenology, Capitalism, Ethics, Philosophy, Photography, Picturesque, Pragmatics, Technology, Things, beginning, global warming on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday morning my father, myself, and a few roomates and friends piled into my new one dollar van to drive north of Toronto to see Richard Serra’s early site-specific work, “Shift”. Although I first heard about the piece four years ago in a course on late Heidegger, a lack of private transportation meant this was [...]
An Adventure in the Making
Posted in Capitalism, Ethics, Technology, beginning, coffee, global warming on June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Is this the Vehicle that will take me across Canada? The story began several weeks ago with some couch surfers who needed to sell a Van they had driven from Vancouver to Montreal and Toronto. Unfortunately, they were not able to sell it. Which was lucky for me, because it meant they were willing to [...]
Why it is necessary to have children.
Posted in Art, Being, Body Phenomenology, Capitalism, Ethics, God, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Technology, beginning, global warming, writing on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I must have children – it is not a matter of choice. Why? Because I myself am a child – to not have a child is to act in contradiction with my own existence. Because my generation does not exist independently of the previous one, because we continue the previous generation and intimate the next [...]
On Elation
Posted in Technology, beginning, bikes, global warming on April 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last night I finished my last paper for core theoretical. So, while I have several other things due before I am finished the term, I do feel over the hump in the sense of having completed almost all the work I dislike – I’m really quite looking forward to the rest.
Today is warm, sunny, and [...]
Moral Universalizability and Climate Change: a Restatement
Posted in Capitalism, Philosophy, beginning, global warming on February 19, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Premise 1: It appears on the face of it, to everyday thinking, that the right thing to do concerning climate change is to reduce one’s own emissions as much as possible, or at least as much as is convenient, and to lobby the state to change laws concerning carbon and energy, and to encourage friends [...]
In a wild upset – Tristan throws his weight behind the Olympics!
Posted in Capitalism, Ethics, Pragmatics, Technology, global warming on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have after hearing Geoff Berner’s new song – from the same man who brought you “Maginot Line”, now we have the official 2010 Olympics theme song!
Go here to hear it – or download for free!
How ecologically friendly is a 14 year old 8 passenger SUV?
Posted in Ethics, Technology, global warming on February 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The question recently came up on a friends blog: what would be the least Carbon intensive method of getting from Ottawa to Vancouver. These numbers are for a single 4800km trip, per person.
Jet: 6000kg
Train:1000kg
Bus: 1500kg
Car:
Well, Car I can actually calculate. It’s quite easy – for every 432 liters of fuel burnt, that’s 1000kg. And since [...]
An argument concerning the morality of climate change
Posted in Ethics, Technology, global warming on February 15, 2008 | 23 Comments »
Some people have decided that the science shows us that humanity can produce a maximum of 750kg per year each of carbon dioxyde, and that therefore it is morally dubious to to think that one has a right to produce more than that unless one has an argument as to why one has the right [...]
