Dar Cuenta

Yo arruiné mi presente por pensar que mi pasada va a repetir. Yo vi algunas señales q asocio con el dolor, y hui. Yo no quise quedar y arriesgarme a recibir El tipo de dolor q he sentido muchas veces antes de él. Pero todavía me siento tan mal, llorar como si fuera alguna mujer…

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words

poets of imaginary laughter, with blazing, emerald immortality.

Complex

Here is an excerpt of a piece I submitted, the beginning of a potential idea. Words are clusters of ideas, and the meaning of a word is contingent, never necessary. But trying to view the meaning of a word through one, or two specific lenses can be more helpful than trying to find some general,…

tick tock

There she stood, higher than her peers, but still not high enough, breeze blowing an aroma mixed with citrus and lavender. Reduced cognitive functioning, or perhaps coffee after thirteen hours of sleep, or perhaps a sudden necessity to focus after a weekend of living. Yes, she concluded, there was a difference between focusing and living.…

Interpretation of Joseph Raz

So this is the essay I ultimately turned in. I got an A on it, if that means anything. The Legitimacy of Laws The central issue in Raz’s “Morality of Freedom” is determining the legitimacy of both an authority and the laws it decrees. According to Raz, all authoritative laws are either neither redundant nor…