EL’S OBSERVATORY

Do We Have Reason To Trust Our Moral Intuitions? We know murdering civilians is wrong. Beyond violating international law, our moral...

The greatest pieces of music, literature, and art are the ones that understand what it means to exist; to be a human in a seemingly...

Sherlock Holmes once said: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” You may...

Preface: This is not the sort of thing regualarly posted on this blog or any blog. That being said, here’s a bit of a (somewhat idiotic)...

Most things are relative, and that includes suffering. Objectively, some people simply have far rougher existences than others and seem...

We are all caught up in a terrible rush; the rush of modern society. We scurry as so many frantic mice from point A to point B, to point...

We each have things that resonate with us individually in an indescribable way — to us, the greatness of those things is the most...

The only certainty in life is that living things must die. And yet, the concept of death is one that we are so uncertain about....

Fyodor Dostoevsky is, of course, one of the most celebrated novelists ever to exist. He is famed for Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The...

People have always had a thirst for knowledge and a desire to learn and understand more about the universe and our place in it. The...

One of the most wonderful aspects of music is its ability to deeply move a person and to transport their mind and soul to vivid new...

Sometimes, I wonder why we are, what the point of life is, and whether the struggle of existence is worth the charms life offers. Most...

Sometimes, it feels like music is capable of sympathizing with and understanding you. When the weight of the world seems most ...

We live among a multitude of wonderfully bizarre and beautiful animals. Physically, we humans are rather sophisticated organisms, but...

Truth is a peculiar thing. Its existence is believed in by nearly everyone, but it's actuality is agreed on by very few. By its very...

There is a well-known hypothetical question, which is designed to elicit an ethical decision from the questionee, concerning the...