Words from a portfolio

During my days as a part-time Humanities student at Memorial University of Newfoundland I wrote essays and collected them in a "Journal" that was examined at the end of the programme. Here they are, with a few extra bits and pieces.

Chapter 0

• Minima (pdf). The journal's first chapter was an Adorno-esque introduction to empiricist ethics.

Ethics and Politics

• How much should a rich person give to prevent a poor person from dying prematurely?
• What have human rights to do with morality?
• The moral prisoner's dilemma
• A doubtful utopia

How people look

• Faces --- A short paper on physiognomy.
• The Judgment of Paris (pdf, in chapters) Preface, Introductory, Story, Masterpiece, Morals, The Judgment of Beauty, Sex and Power, Appendix. (The Masterpiece chapter includes discussion of the Raphael and Manet pictures used in the icon for this webpage.)

Future History

• The Timoshenka Message (pdf). An essay disguised as speculative fiction.

Autobiography

• A hypertext account of my adolescence created to illustrate how carefully-constructed hypertext allows readers to shape narrative just through their link choices.