Philosophy
Ethics
I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but I’m constantly beset by the anxious and uncertain desire to be a good person. But what, in heaven’s name, does that even mean? Is morality a universal category accessible to reason, or a socially conditioned set of arbitrary rules? How is one ever to know? And why is being good good, anyway? I have lots of thoughts and no confidence that any of them are correct. I am, after all, just some guy.
You Good, Bro?
We all want to be happy, don’t we? Aristotle thinks so. But what does it mean to be happy? And what does it have to do with this whole human business?