Category: Philosophy

• Reconsidering “Duty” in Kant’s View of Moral Worth

  November 10, 2025

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  Feature, Philosophy

  Since his treatise in 1785, Immanuel Kant has become world renowned as a rottweiler for duty and a dismissive disciplinarian of emotions. But here, my aim is to encourage some reconsideration of Immanuel Kant’s vision of duty as integral in gauging moral worth.

  

• More Than Mere Formality: A Treatment of Poetry and the Catholic Mass

  September 13, 2025

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  Opinion, Philosophy, Poetry

  If we had seen the poet, first ordered to get up and take his place in a comic and indecent ballet, and then, seated and honoured with wine and spontaneously beginning his tragic lay at the inner prompting for a goddess, we should never again forget the distinction.

  

• Bacchus and Burke: Ecstasy and the Sublime

  February 4, 2025

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  Feature, Literary Criticism, Opinion, Philosophy

  The Greek Tragedian and playwright Euripides illustrates the correlation between the ecstatic frenzy and the sublime both in relation to those who experience the frenzy and in relation to the god himself.