The Importance of Genius in Understanding Taste with Kant’s Aesthetic Philosophy

Fronteras Borrosas y Centros Mezclados: El Desarrollo de la Frontera Metafísica en el Pensamiento Chicano

For the English reader, another title of this essay could be: 

Blurred Borders and Scrambled Centers: The Development of the Frontera throughout Chicano Thought.

Being, Seeming, and Errancy in Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics

 This is a straightforward explication of Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics(IM), which, I think, is one of his greatest works, as it is where he develops this idea that "parmenides and heraclitus think the same." He also touches on spirituality, and the etyomological stuff in interesting, but if you're looking for further reading, read the final section of IM, and specifically the sections of thinking and even the ought, which I wasn't able to include for length reasons. In short, the ought is a "prototype" of being. But I'll write about that later.

Thinking of Poetry Beyond Value: How Heidegger Thinks toward Postmodernism with Nietzsche

Thinking of Poetry Beyond Value: How Heidegger Thinks toward Postmodernism with Nietzsche

“You can’t look at the sky without looking right through it,” – Tim Kinsella, Puddle Splashers

Alternative Title: Poetry toward a Plural Neotheology

A Thomistic Argument for the Necessity of Metaphysics with Intelligibility

    For the sake of clarity, I'll include a short preface here that was not present in the original paper: Norris Clarke is an interesting philosopher who basically "modernizes" Thomist philosophy, and he clearly explicates the delicate system in a way that addresses the philosophical problems of modernity (nihilism, namely), and utilizes various existentialist themes. Point is, he's not an idiot, and while admittedly, this essay was written before I had even finished the book (so please excuse whatever specifics I got wrong, I'm too lazy to do corrections), I hold a lot of respect for Clarke. I have also generally become more sympathetic to ideas of divinity (in a pluralistic way, at least), so I urge you to give his view a chance.

Response to Jaspers and "The Idea of Education."

The University as the Co-Research of Culture

Response to Eva Brann's "Eight Theses on Liberal Education."

Five Theses on Liberal Education.