Moral Moments

Forever Now

by Joel Marks

My mind has been blown. That happens on occasion; it is an occupational hazard of one whose work is thinking about things, examining assumptions, wondering. As I suggested in an earlier column about the nature of philosophy (in Issue 33), this business is simply one of reflecting on already established facts (or beliefs), from commonplaces to scientific arcana, and drawing out implications from them by descrying relations among them. But the payoff can far exceed the investment; indeed, everything can change, as in my oft-used analogy of a Gestalt shift.

So what is it this time? Why .

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