SORGE VOL. 2 IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Sorge is the undergraduate philosophy journal at The Ohio State University, founded in 2022. Sorge is ran by the Leighton Undergraduate Philosophy Club. At the moment, we publish only original undergraduate philosophical work from The Ohio State University.
Sorge is a German word that means care. It features prominently in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, who described care as the structure of the human being’s world. Our journal is interested in expressing the uniqueness of how we each express care. As such, Sorge publishes thoughtful and careful perspectives. We welcome submissions from any area of philosophy.
If you are interested in submitting work to Sorge, please click on the Submissions tab.
Below is a fable Heidegger invokes that encapsulates some of the founding motivations of Sorge:
Once when “Care” was crossing a river, she saw some clay; she thoughtfully took a piece and began to shape it. While she was thinking about what she had made, Jupiter came by. “Care” asked him to give it spirit, and he gladly granted. But when she wanted her name to be bestowed upon it, Jupiter forbade this and demanded that it be given his name instead. While “Care” and Jupiter were arguing, Earth (Tellus) arose, and desired that her name be conferred upon the creature, since she had offered it part of her body. They asked Saturn to be the judge. And Saturn gave them the following decision, which seems to be just: “Since you, Jupiter, have given its spirit, you should receive that spirit at death; and since you, Earth, have given its body, you shall receive its body. But since ‘Care’ first shaped this creature, she shall possess it as long as it lives. And because there is a dispute among you as to its name, let it be called ‘homo,’ for it is made out of humus (earth).”1