Roman Elegies V by Goethe

I feel I’m happily inspired now on Classical soil: The Past and Present speak louder, more charmingly. Here, as advised, I leaf through the works of the Ancients With busy hands, and, each day, with fresh delight. But at night Love keeps me busy another way: I become half a scholar but twice as contented. …

A Brief Joker Review

The score of discord sewn in with string instruments gives the viewer a glimpse into the world of a knotted mind which is at tense and in a state of unease, where something is very wrong. The imagery, the sound, the grit, the atmosphere, it all blends together as we see the outline of a …

INVICTUS by William Ernest Henley

INVICTUS Out of the night that covers me,Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLooms but the Horror of …

Just Published My Short Story "The Exile"

https://www.amazon.com/Exile-Stephen-C-Pedersen/dp/1709217456/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=stephen+pedersen+exile&qid=1577841971&sr=8-2 You can get the paperback on Amazon for $5.99, the Kindle for $.99 This is a short, poignant allegory which begins in the ancient city of Babylon. The protagonist is a man who wrestles with darkness, but who ceaselessly strives towards the light. However, after forty circling centuries have passed, the polymath leaves everything …

A Dialogue on Nietzsche’s Depth Psychology

It was September. This week Café metaphysics was to be held at the bar Soren and I use frequent. Sad memories lingered as I walk up the hill to its doors. Daedalus recalled The last time the entire group met there in our discussion on depth psychology in Greek tragedy. Daedalus then looked up in …

An Analysis of Matthew Arnold’s Literature and Science

Percy passed an essay on to Daedalus for him to read, but first he gave the setting in which it was created. Percy told him that it was addressed to the United States in 1883, in reply to Thomas H. Huxley's “Science and Culture," delivered in Birmingham on October 1st, 1880. Huxley was known as …

An Alternate Ending For the Storm and Stress Part 1: Organizing the Chaos Within

That night, while Daniel rested, he was visited by a cloaked man. The man leaned over Daniel and put two fingers on his eyes, and suddenly Daedalus’ mind awakened. Waves of emotions came crashing over him, hitting him hard. The booming, buzzing confusion arrested him. Then the gears in his brain started to move again …

Darwin and the Descent of Man

Darwin and The Descent of Man Charles Darwin (1809-1882) went to the University of Edinburgh and Cambridge like his grandfather Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802). Erasmus became a good enough physician to tend to George III, and his most important scientific work was Zoonomia which explains pathology and hinted at the idea of evolution. While Charles Darwin …

Thomas Reid On Common Sense

Thomas Reid On Common Sense Daniel woke up one Saturday and stretched after he got out of bed, then looked out his small window to see the sun blanketing the green grass below. He quickly got dressed and began his long walk to the café. Normally, he would drive his car, but today was a …

The Republic is Falling

Friends, The question I pose to you is this: Are you going to vote to win or vote to lose? Younger generations are prone to idealism, but we mustn't do this for this election because it is the single most important vote that the United States has ever face. Divided we will be conquered, united …

Faustian Ethics

In Marlowe’s Faust we come to find a man that was in search after power and lust. A man who desired to be twenty for life, sleep with every woman, and have the power to do as he will. What we find in Goethe’s Faust is very different. Faust is a wise man, a polymath, …

My book titled The Storm and Stress is now published

Just published my book titled "The Storm and Stress: Organizing the Chaos Within" It breathes new life into ancient Greek Philosophy + thought in a narrative of a young man set on the ancient command, "Know Thyself" who vows to take on the examined life. https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Stress-Organizing-Chaos-Within/dp/1090696043/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1556993117&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body By Andrew Marvell

SOUL O who shall, from this dungeon, raise A soul enslav’d so many ways? With bolts of bones, that fetter’d stands In feet, and manacled in hands; Here blinded with an eye, and there Deaf with the drumming of an ear; A soul hung up, as ’twere, in chains Of nerves, and arteries, and veins; …

Mind By Richard Wilbur

Mind in its purest play is like some bat That beats about in caverns all alone, Contriving by a kind of senseless wit Not to conclude against a wall of stone. It has no need to falter or explore; Darkly it knows what obstacles are there, And so may weave and flitter, dip and soar …

Collingwood: The Idea of History

[H]istory is ‘for’ human self-knowledge. It is generally thought to be of importance to man that he should know himself; where knowing himself means knowing not his merely personal peculiarities, the things that distinguish him from other men, but his nature as man. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a man; …