Recent Writings The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse. Notes and intrepretive analysis.

Essays (1996-2000)

Truth and Freedom : Analysis of how "the truth shall set you free" comparing the fictional character The Grand Inquisitor from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Sophocles' play "Oedipus the King," and characters from Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved.

Death in Tolstoy's "Hadji Murad" : Discussion of the different modes of dealing with death, in true Russian fashion.

Private Lives and Public Spaces : A comparative analysis of the political philosophies of Milton Friedman and Hannah Arendt

Freedom is absurd : A half-assed analysis of freedom, concocted with the philosophies of Kant, Hume, and Sartre. Written as final paper in philosophy.

Objective and Formal reality : Explaining the difference between objective and formal reality in Descarte's philosophy.

Evil and Justice : Analysis of the apparent paradox of returning evil with evil in punishment for a crime (with regard to Socrates in the Crito).

Kant

Notes from the introduction of Marx's book on Hegel.

A history of History how historicism developed from its beginnings in ancient Greece to modern times.