John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, a 2019 Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute, and the author of, among other books, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are and the forthcoming Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living.
John Kaag
Our Pragmatic Present
There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay
by John Kaag | Monday, March 27, 2023
Fatal Courage
How Emerson helped me see, as if for the first time
by John Kaag | Monday, December 07, 2020
How to Live With Dying
Before I could accept mortality, I had to stop running from it
by John Kaag | Saturday, October 24, 2020
Freedom of Thought
The philosophical currents that shaped our nation