Become from: An Experiment in Intellectual and Spiritual Accounting

Welträson: Reason for Being in the World, Part 2

Welträson: Reason for Being in the World, Part 1

Welträson: Reason for Being in the World

“Carry me along, taddy, like you done through the toy fair.”

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

I said that I seemed by my nature to seek understanding historically. As with most stories, I wanted always to begin at the beginning, see how things came to be, experience their development, the obstacles and the overcomings, work my way to the resolution, however irresolute it might show itself to be. Histories offer explanations, how this came from that, how that led to this, how we got here – whoever we, whatever here happens to be in the context. The story of who we or anyone or anything is. That’s what I sought when I studied philosophy. And that’s what I did when I studied history itself. So I started, in college, with antiquity.

But “by nature” is a shorthand approach to persona…