Keith “Maggie” Brown
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body atlas
Originally posted on coromandal: Happiness and depression are felt all over the body, while anger and pride only in the chest and head. These are images from research on emotion response by a group of scientists from Finland. The researchers… Continue reading
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Marsilio Ficino
Probably one of the least known yet most influential philosophers in the last 1000 years. Another way to understand Ficino and his academy is to examine the various ways he uses the word “academy” and its variants. What one finds… Continue reading
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Keeping Vigil
I call the time between first and second sleep the Night Vigil, following the old monastic traditions. For me, Night Vigil begins with an examination of conscience: Oh thou Encompassing, thou All, thou One. How can I give myself over… Continue reading
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Ecstasy
“Blessed and holy, I would say, is he to whom it has been given to experience such a thing in this mortal life at rare intervals or even once; and this suddenly and scarcely for the space of a single… Continue reading
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Han Shan 36
Lust, or love; some grasp at it for happiness, but only calamity dwells within the mortal shell, and thus they march through fire toward a bright mirage, to find all love inconstant; the dying body . . . A real… Continue reading
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Athletics and the Political Ambitions of Young Adults » Sociological Images
The authors suggest that the mediating factor is “an opportunity to develop… a competitive spirit.” Sports, they argue, may build or reinforce the tendency to find pleasure in competition, which may make politics more appealing. via Athletics and the Political Ambitions… Continue reading
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planes, trains and automobiles
Originally posted on betacity: From the Regional Plan Association, more evidence all is not what it seems: our governments subsidize all forms of transportation, including cars – (there go our bragging rights): A common theme of U.S. political dialogue is… Continue reading
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hither and yon
Originally posted on betacity: Cars are inviolably and inextricably linked to freedom; and, with no less conviction, to solvency. Of course they are: you can hop in anytime and go anywhere you want when you have a car. You can… Continue reading
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Casino Capitalism: Killer Control
We now live under a form of casino capitalism that revels in deception, kills the radical imagination, depoliticizes the American public and promulgates what might be called disimagination factories and punishing machines. Idealism has been replaced by a repressive punishing… Continue reading
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Sustaining life is not the good life
Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: I write this post after spending time this morning contemplating the nature of things. This post is not a ‘product’ of that contemplation. * In Sources of the Self, Charles Taylor has some remarkable things… Continue reading
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Jasmine Mans
7 “But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes,… Continue reading
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Blinding Trust and the Elected Aristocracy
What can it mean for doing business in Washington, DC, that the “blind trusts” of elected officials favor the corporations that receive the most benefits from doing business with and receiving aid from the largest public purse in the world?… Continue reading
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Greater Means Yet Less Meaning
Aristotle, in his Nichomachean Ethics, examines eudaimonia (happiness or flourishing) as the end or purpose of human life. He does this at first through a series of negatives: Happiness is not… Pursuit of Pleasure because even animals can experience pleasure… Continue reading
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Pursuing Professorship, Ctd
Originally posted on The Dish: A doctoral student writes: The only reason why there’s a glut of PhD graduates without jobs is that the availability of full-time tenure-track professorships has declined. Why is that? It’s not because of demand. There’s… Continue reading
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