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npglazer
Dec 30, 20223 min read
MKUltra, science and ethics, and the "deep state."
I recently finished a book a couple of weeks ago by the esteemed journalist Stephen Kinzer. The book is entitled "Poisoner in Chief:...
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npglazer
Dec 1, 20223 min read
Michel Foucault and the neo-liberal rot that is in America.
I am almost done reading the book "The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution." In this book the authors, Mitchell Dean...
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npglazer
Jun 7, 20223 min read
Fundamentalism, Politics, Scientism, and Nietzsche's nihilism
I personally go to an Episcopalian church here in Sacramento, and I was raised as a Lutheran in Northern California. So I am heavily...
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npglazer
Mar 2, 20223 min read
John Keat's negative capability, ambiguity, and Ash Wednesday mortality
John Keats was a poet who lived from 1795 to 1821, so really not a very long time. In this short time though Keats came up with a...
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npglazer
Dec 15, 20213 min read
Heidegger's Das Man, William James, and the Three Kings of Dissent; Hedges, West, and Chomsky,
One of my favorite philosopher's Martin Heidegger had a concept that he named "Das Man," or the "The They," in his book Being and Time. ...
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npglazer
Nov 20, 20212 min read
Nihilism and politics as religion
Recently one of my favorite contemporary journalists, Matt Taibbi, wrote an article about how the news and politics is America's new...
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npglazer
Aug 25, 20214 min read
William James sick souls and Kierkegaard's despair
William James the American pragmatist philosopher in his book "The Varieties of Religious Experience," had a notion of two different...
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npglazer
Aug 6, 20213 min read
Nietzsche, freedom, and grace
Saying Friedrich Nietzsche was critical of Christianity might be a slight understatement. He thought it was an oppressive, mendacious,...
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npglazer
Mar 12, 20212 min read
Subjectivity and Witness
Heidegger wrote about the ontology of Dasein in Being and Time. One of the conditions of Dasein's being is that we have "thrownness." ...
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npglazer
Feb 1, 20212 min read
Love is patient, love is kind
I would never call myself an ethicist since ethics was never my speciality in school. I took a seminar once in grad school though on...
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npglazer
Jan 7, 20213 min read
Domain dependent virtue and vice
It seems to me that people often think of others as either a virtuous person or a person who is full of vice. What do I mean by this? ...
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npglazer
Jan 7, 20211 min read
My message to Trump I wrote.
Yesterday January 6, was a shameful day in American history. We had an insurrection happen at Washington D.C. You Donald Trump did...
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npglazer
Dec 31, 20202 min read
Agency, facticity, capitalism, and prayer
A quick definition of agency is "agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment. Facticity is "something that already...
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npglazer
Dec 24, 20202 min read
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and the posthumous genius philosopher.
Life begins in media res, so to speak, or as Heidegger might put it, Daesin has a thrownness towards its "being-in-the-world." As the...
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