In what ways do donuts express a philosophical point of view? Three considerations come to mind at first bite...

While the idea of yin and yang may seem too obvious of a response, it is worth considering a Jack Kerouac quote, "Without space there can be no form..."; the void at core allows for the expression of form. Without the emptiness of space at the center there could truly be no form; without the shape of the ring (infinite, unending yet paradoxically limited in scope) there could be no emptiness and void within.

The donut is also symbolic of each of us, as we seek experience and expression within this world, incarnate in our current forms: Our outer shells (well-weathered sacs of bones that they are) merely encapsulating the emptiness within each of us, a meeting of physical and metaphysical, as it were.

Turdly, the donut (or rather, the ritual and symbolic indulgence of it) represents a paradox in that it is both an aspect of the accepted mundane rituals of day-to-day, meat and potatoes, chopping wood and fetching water approach to life we have chosen to embrace (for truly, we do have choice, and we must take accountability and ownership for that), as well as concurrently representing an escape from that same level of mundanity: It is both an inherent ritual and reflection of our chosen, one-dimensional enslavement, as well as an accepted demonstration of an escape from the same, the subconsciously programmed mantra of, "Time to make the donuts...", as we move one day closer to...

A combination of the physical with the metaphysical, of the finite with the infinite, and of mundanity and transcendence. Donut make sense?