I've been inside a fairy tale called The Golden Key for about a week now. It's the subject of the last essay of my BA. Appropriate, I think.

I have found my golden key. I'm not sure I've fully uncovered the iron chest though. In alchemy, iron is associated with Mars - instinctual affect, drives, aggressiveness. But the casket is a distinctly ( Read more... )

What if morally relevant freedom isn't something we have achieved yet? Or perhaps, have only achieved in the rarest instances, with a few exceptional people, or better, a few exceptional moments, when it bloomed into the world. What is free will is something in our future, something we are growing into, rather than the real conditions of our ( Read more... )