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Philosophy as a Way of Life

  • Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine

    Really bad ass unofficial video for Kanye West’s “Who will survive in a America…” Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine | Design Graphic & Photography Inspirations. Continue reading

    Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine

  • The Intelligencers and the Fifth Moon of Jupiter: Alchemy in the American Colonies « Newtopia Magazine

    Next time somebody tries to pull the “America was founded by good Christians who were regular church goers, pull this info out on them. Thanks to Zeteticus @ Soul Spelunker for Scooping this interesting piece. Puritan alchemists founded America; sounds… Continue reading

  • » Hard-to-Believe! High School Student Researchers?

    I am always humbled to know that I have had a philosophical career that could only have been born in an atmosphere like the one at Waxahachie High School. While I was never one of the computer science and research… Continue reading

  • How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?

    Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease of indifference. Today we live in a different age, one that so worried Bloom—an age… Continue reading

  • Review for new book: “What Can You Really Know?”

    A tad meandering for a book review, but the conclusion is of interest. When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories? These are the ugly questions that Jim Holt’s book… Continue reading

  • The War that Never Ends: Thucydides & Plato

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  • A Boon of Dandelions 4

    Our greatest shortcoming: obsessive desire for certainty, compulsive appetite for the sure thing. Some will panic in the search; a few get utterly lost in trying to fix the “game.” Yet life is no play-thing to manipulate. The conviction that… Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 3

    These past weeks since my brother’s death, fear has hunted me. Or better, I have hunted myself… for I have not been afeared of what might actually do me harm right now or even partially down the line of life.… Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 2

    Frustrated. Nervous. Confused. Diseased. Disordered. Cloudy day and foggy mood although I do not think it a direct correlation: not then seasonal activity disorder. Melancholy abounds into my now/here; she empassions me darkly. Boundary situation of pain: Toes I sprained… Continue reading

  • be happy, do nothing… « lederr

    From Lederr‘s blog… Canadian social psychologist Jamie Gruman is proposing a new way of achieving nirvana: Do nothing. Instead, live in the moment and embrace the “serene and contented acceptance of life as it is, with no ambitions of acquisition,… Continue reading

  • Becoming Empassioned

    Good piece. Opening ourselves up to the possibility of this Beautiful Order, we become conduits, energized by the dynamic force of the Encompassing Good. Letting-go of worry or fretfulness or obsession, we need not follow bliss as the blissful will… Continue reading

  • The Entitlement of Opinion

    The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinion” is that, all too often, it’s used to shelter beliefs that should have been abandoned. It becomes shorthand for “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension, continuing… Continue reading

  • Ending The War Between Athens & Jerusalem: LA Review of Books

    THE VIEW THAT ATHENS AND JERUSALEM represent two very different and antagonistic sources of Western civilization has long been a feature of the Western tradition. It dates back at least to Tertullian’s passionate second-century polemic against Greek philosophy. Those Enlightenment… Continue reading

  • Klee Conference – Institute for the Liberal Arts – Boston College

    Wow. If I had known that this was going to be happening, I would definitely have saved up some funding for myself and Christopher to go to it. Just too much cool stuff happening in the world. If there are… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120923

    Attend. Adjust. Acknowledge: Unhindered by regret, this WAY lets-go the insolence reposing within success & embraces the humility residing within failure Continue reading

  • The Method of the Moon Bridge

    The Moon was one of humankind’s first measures for time. Thus, to this day the word “month” recalls that original measurement. “Moon” itself probably arises from a variation of the Indo-European term “me-” which is also the root for “to… Continue reading

  • Tolkien & Teaching

    In his mythology, Tolkien tells us that the elves crossed the sea in rebellion, and even those who linger yet in Middle Earth do not forget and yearn for a return to their land of origin.  For elves, the sea is… Continue reading