At first almost all American thinkers were either theologians or literary writers, such as Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman, Poe, Twain, etc. But soon enough some of these writers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Longfellow blossomed into budding philosophers, such as Longfellow and Thomas Paine. Perhaps its safe to say that philosophy as such…

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL : ESAU AND JACOB             A couple of generations after the Isaac and Ishmael division among the children of Abraham, along came Isaac’s sons Esau and Jacob. Jacob had twelve sons and their descendants became the twelve tribes of Israel. The youngest of Jacob’s sons was Joseph and he was favored…