Who writes this is not important

If you came here looking for a biography, photograph, CV, or list of credentials, you will not find one. None of those things can make an argument true.

Socratic wisdom is the only good; ignorance is the only vice.

That is the claim on which this site stands. A life is made good by understanding: by examining one’s judgements and refusing to live by the unexamined ones. A name, position, institution, or personal history cannot substitute for that.

What a person says about themselves gives no additional merit to what they say. If an argument is sound, it is sound whoever wrote it. If it is not, no credential will save it. To ask first who is this? is therefore to begin with the wrong question. The relevant question is: is it true?

I went to each man who seemed to possess some knowledge… and I found that those with the best reputations were almost the most deficient, while others who were thought to be inferior were more nearly correct.

— Plato, Apology 21c–22a

Modern publishing and search systems tend to ask for a person they can classify: occupation, education, institutional affiliation, photograph. But reputation and knowledge are not the same thing. Socrates’ examination of those reputed to be wise begins precisely from that distinction.

The Cynics pushed the point further. When Alexander asked Diogenes what he wanted, Diogenes asked him to stand out of his sunlight. Alexander’s status was irrelevant to the matter at hand.

The same principle applies here.

The work is the essays. Read those. Argue with those. That is the introduction that matters.