My Philosophy

This category holds the posts where I work out what I actually believe and why. Not philosophy in the academic sense, but the practical kind: the principles I have arrived at through living, testing them against reality, and keeping the ones that held up.

I am suspicious of borrowed certainty. A great deal of what people believe was simply handed to them and never examined, and I have spent a lot of my life pulling those inherited assumptions apart to see which ones survive scrutiny. The posts here are the record of that work, applied to questions about freedom, judgment, happiness, and how to treat other people.

You will not find a single tidy system in these pages. What you will find is a consistent habit: examine the claim, look at the evidence, and come to your own conclusion rather than accepting what you are told. That habit is the closest thing I have to a philosophy.

Richard Lowe Jr writes about the practical philosophy of living deliberately, judging people as individuals, and questioning inherited belief.