Arts & Metaphysics

This website contains my essays and notes about art, history, religion, and philosophy.

Essays

• On Definitions
• A Definition of Faith
• Justification via Other’s Beliefs
• A Definition of Ethics
• Ethical Progress
• Faith and Righteousness
• Merciful and Just
• Justice
• Meaning and Purpose
• Critique of “As a Driven Leaf”
• The Future of Art
• Faith and Reason
• Altera: Motivation
• Altera: Physical Laws
• Altera: Evolving Consciousness
• Altera: Appearance and Reality
• Altera: Free Will
• Altera: Science
• Fear of Death
• Love They Neighbor as Thyself
• Why Does Hell Exist?
• What I Believe

Notes

• Ancient Egypt
• The Hittites
• Ancient China
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• “The Epic of Gilgamesh”
• David Hockney
• The “Iliad”
• The “Odyssey”
• Hesiod
• “The Homeric Hymns”
• “Job” and the Problem of Evil
• “The Old Testament”
• “The Histories” by Herodotus
• “The Master and Margarita”
• “The Big Picture” by Sean Carroll