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Essays and debates addressing fundamental questions about reality, knowledge, values, and human purpose.


WHY BE JUST IF YOU CAN BE RICH?

WHY BE JUST IF YOU CAN BE RICH?

We built modern systems that function like the Ring of Gyges—rewarding invisibility and killing accountability. Justice requires a new institutional architecture.

Philosophy

MARKET JUSTICE ON TRIAL: Stop Teaching Neoclassical Economics!

MARKET JUSTICE ON TRIAL: Stop Teaching Neoclassical Economics!

A sharp critique of neoclassical economics, exposing how its theories legitimise inequality by disguising moral claims as scientific necessity.

Economics

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The Diversity Lie: Why "More Voices" Means Less Truth

The Diversity Lie: Why "More Voices" Means Less Truth

A rigorous critique of how diversity ideology undermines truth-seeking by replacing epistemic standards with identity-based relativism.

Philosophy

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Poetry As The Path to Wisdom

Poetry As The Path to Wisdom

A philosophical defence of poetry as a mode of participatory knowing that restores our access to meaning, moral reality, and the Good.

Philosophy

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The Empathy Trap: Good Leadership Demands Judgment, Not Just Feeling

The Empathy Trap: Good Leadership Demands Judgment, Not Just Feeling

Empathy alone can’t make leaders moral—real leadership demands judgment, courage, and justice, not just sentimental resonance.

Philosophy

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The Dialogue Of Horizons: Why Freedom Needs Purpose

The Dialogue Of Horizons: Why Freedom Needs Purpose

True freedom is not the multiplication of options, but the formative depth of a life lived toward the Good.

Philosophy

Judgment Day: Greatness Is Measured by our Beggars, Not Billionaires

Judgment Day: Greatness Is Measured by our Beggars, Not Billionaires

True national greatness isn’t wealth or power—it’s how a society treats its most vulnerable. A moral reckoning for today’s leaders.

Philosophy

Fractures of Modernity: The Weltgeist Is Unhappy—Again

Fractures of Modernity: The Weltgeist Is Unhappy—Again

A poetic reflection on modernity, measurement, alienation, and the restless spirit that signals the possibility of transformation.

Philosophy

The Wisdom Graveyard

The Wisdom Graveyard

A critique of our productivity-obsessed culture: pragmatism gets things done, but wisdom asks what our achievements turn us into.

Philosophy

THAT'S JUST "YOUR TRUTH"! Or: The Most Dangerous Stupidity of Our Age

THAT'S JUST "YOUR TRUTH"! Or: The Most Dangerous Stupidity of Our Age

A demolition of epistemic relativism as a self-refuting ideology eroding science, democracy, justice, and the very possibility of reason itself.

Philosophy

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THE FANTASY OF “SAFE OPERATING SPACES”: Why Planetary Boundaries Cannot Ground Ethics

THE FANTASY OF “SAFE OPERATING SPACES”: Why Planetary Boundaries Cannot Ground Ethics

Planetary boundaries and doughnut economics can’t replace ethical judgment—true morality begins where measurement ends.

Philosophy

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ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN AN AGE OF CRISIS

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN AN AGE OF CRISIS

Ethical leadership begins where management ends — using power as stewardship, not self-interest, in an age of systemic crisis.

Philosophy

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The Justice Lie: How Economic Science Manufactures Inequality

The Justice Lie: How Economic Science Manufactures Inequality

A First Systematic Analysis of Ethics Behind Neoclassical Economic Theory

Economics

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THE CURIOUSLY FORGOTTEN PROPERTY AXIS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

THE CURIOUSLY FORGOTTEN PROPERTY AXIS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

The Triangle We Refuse to See: Property, Power, and Political Freedom

Philosophy

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A Metaphysical Misunderstanding: Well-Being As The New Science Of Morality

A Metaphysical Misunderstanding: Well-Being As The New Science Of Morality

Why the modern obsession with well-being scores and health apps risks hollowing out our moral imagination.

Philosophy

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When Sympathy Fails: The Moral Gymnastics of Adam Smith

When Sympathy Fails: The Moral Gymnastics of Adam Smith

A sweeping, iconoclastic takedown of Adam Smith’s sentimentalism—exposing its circular logic, apologetics for hierarchy, and why it fails as a foundation for moral philosophy.

Philosophy

Who’s Afraid of a Capitalist?!

Who’s Afraid of a Capitalist?!

How capitalism’s defenders and critics alike miss the real story—because they’ve never read the manual.

Philosophy

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WHO’S AFRAID OF A MARXIST?!

WHO’S AFRAID OF A MARXIST?!

How Marx’s name became a political Rorschach test

Philosophy

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A PRIMER IN POLITICAL IDEOLOGY: Which Road Are You Really On?

A PRIMER IN POLITICAL IDEOLOGY: Which Road Are You Really On?

Every road to the future is paved by our political lens—maturity means questioning not just the route, but the worldview shaping our way.

Philosophy

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A Convenient Modern Misreading Of The GOLDEN RULE: It’s Not Just Kant in a Tunic

A Convenient Modern Misreading Of The GOLDEN RULE: It’s Not Just Kant in a Tunic

The Golden Rule is not about mutual advantage or rational fairness—it’s a summons to participate in the self-giving love of God, as citizens of a Kingdom that remakes reality from the cross.

Philosophy

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IS CAPITALISM LEGITIMATE?

IS CAPITALISM LEGITIMATE?

If the core relationships of capitalism are built on power, not equality, can any talk of "just capitalism" escape being another excuse for domination?

Economics

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The Wanderer: A Quest for Meaning in a Restless World

The Wanderer: A Quest for Meaning in a Restless World

From Romantic solitude to postmodern rootlessness - the economic wanderers today confront a world where identity and meaning quickly dissolve in the fog of market forces.

Economics

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Navigating the Conundrum of Self and Freedom: A Canonical Synthesis

Navigating the Conundrum of Self and Freedom: A Canonical Synthesis

A critical synthesis of the main philosophical traditions linking concepts of freedom with ontologies of self.

Philosophy

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What If Time Doesn't Exist?

What If Time Doesn't Exist?

What if time is not a ticking clock, but the unfolding of potential—measured by its participation in the depth of life rather than the price on a balance sheet?"

Philosophy

Knowledge Is Power... A Mathematical Meditation on Self and Character

Knowledge Is Power... A Mathematical Meditation on Self and Character

True power comes not from accumulating knowledge, but from enacting it wisely in alignment with character and selfhood.

Philosophy

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