Kurt Keefner
"For the Love of Wisdom"
I have decided to write another book, tentatively titled For the Love of Wisdom. It is going to be the sum of all my thinking about...
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Kurt Keefner
- Apr 11, 2021
- 3 min
To Choose Wonder
Plato and Aristotle agreed that philosophy starts in wonder, but wonder is a much broader feeling than what they meant. There is...
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Kurt Keefner
- Feb 18, 2021
- 11 min
Self-Realization and Ecology
How to become who you are naturally rather than by force.
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Kurt Keefner
- Sep 11, 2020
- 11 min
Man and Nature in The Fountainhead
Architecture is the interface between man and nature. An opportunity for a theme!
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Kurt Keefner
- Jun 12, 2020
- 11 min
Brave New Us
Despite the differences we are tending in the direction of Huxley's hedonistic dystopia.
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Kurt Keefner
- May 15, 2020
- 9 min
The Bust of Caesar
Some characters are perfectly realized without being merely allegorical.
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Kurt Keefner
- Apr 10, 2020
- 2 min
Announcing Killing Cool
Essays on authenticity. And vampires. And hugs. And musicians.
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Kurt Keefner
- Mar 18, 2020
- 5 min
Selfishness —Not Just a Virtue but an Art
A guide to saying Yes and saying No. Dr Seabury got there 20 years before Miss Rand.
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Kurt Keefner
- May 5, 2018
- 7 min
Is That Even a Thing?
Down the rabbit hole, but hopefully not into the echo chamber, with today's mental metaphors.
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Kurt Keefner
- Mar 15, 2018
- 1 min
Free Will Defended
Announcing my rebuttal to Sam Harris' erroneous views on the subject of free will.
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Kurt Keefner
- May 8, 2014
- 24 min
John Galt, Alternative Christ
My thesis is that John Galt, hero of Ayn Rand's magnum opus Atlas Shrugged, can be regarded as an "alternative Christ." An alternative...
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Kurt Keefner
- Jul 14, 2012
- 2 min
New York Times Review of Sam Harris’ Free Will
A review of Sam Harris' book that turns inevitably toward the kind of nihilism of "scientific" determinism.
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