Please forgive me, but I cannot help myself. I am an armchair philosopher, it is another of my passions that continually helps me navigate life’s inevitable trials. So I humbly offer you my thoughts on some of the most important philosophers in my life. – Rob
The Cave – Plato
Imagine, as if in a dream, that you and some others are chained near the back of a cave, all virtual prisoners. You are facing the back wall of this cave, and because you are restricted in movement you can only see this wall. Behind you, light streams…
Freedom – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Man is condemned to be free,” said Jean-Paul Sartre in his famous lecture, “Existentialism is a Humanism”, given in 1946, about a year after the end of World War II. What did this famous French philosopher mean by this seemingly cryptic statement? As travelers, we often speak of…
The River – Heraclitus
A river, like all things in our world, constantly flows and is ever-changing. Therefore, when we return to a river we have previously visited, it appears to be the same river, but it is not. Nor are we the same person. Like the river, everything in our world…
