Month: January 2011
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What if pain weren’t a bad thing?
Meditate on the difference between these two statements: 1. Pain is not a bad thing. 2. Pain is something very bad. (Example taken from A.A. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy) On the face of it, statement 1 seems puzzling. How can pain not be a bad thing? Isn’t that rather like saying that a cat isn’t a…
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On being resentful
In the Jan. 17, 2011 edition of The New Yorker, the journalist James Surowiecki writes that the “recession has… magnified the gap between unionized and non-unionized workers.” He goes on to say that “[t]his resentment is most evident in the backlash against public-sector workers (who now make up a majority of union members).” Here we…
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Will training exercise: bearing hot and cold
There are a few problems we urban dwellers deal with on a daily basis. One is the feeling that we know what the right thing to do is and yet we seem to be unable to bridge the divide between intention and action. I know it would be good to help push the car that’s…
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What’s the difference between life coaching and philosophical counseling?
The distinction can be drawn in the following way. Life coaching works on the assumption that the client already has a goal in mind yet is unsure how to reach that goal or feels as though she lacks the willpower or mental resources to do so. Life coaching seeks to better equip us to make…
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The role of Stoicism in the development of Rational Emotional Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
Here’s the article abstract.
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 