Month: October 2011
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On invitations to have philosophical conversations, disciplines of eating, smallholding farming, and much more on Pindar and St. Benedict
In the spirit of giving, I’d like to invite you to have a philosophical conversation with me. Let’s call it philosophical conversation as gift giving. I’ve been meeting a lot of people this way in the past couple weeks. My strolling card is filling up, but let’s see if we can make it work. What’s…
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Burning Man: Spiritual experience, gift exchange, & primal ritual
I ask again what we’re to make of spiritual experience in the early 21st C. and I hear again more first answers. And I think again of the place of gift exchange in this new order of being. And I read again about Burning Man–how strange, how primal, how elemental, how transient. Simone Ubaldi explores…
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Friday meditation: On gift giving, potlatches, and the modern world
The Gift Exchange I think it was last week when I had a conversation with John Mitchinson of Unbound books. I write “I think it was last week” because I’m starting to run all my conversations together, and my days have started to lose their hard edges. Near the end of my conversation with John,…
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A critique of CBT – Part 2
Kantian Critique as Just Generosity Kant’s conception of critique is meant to give us an accurate assessment of the instrument under investigation: of its proper uses, overuses, and misuses. There is a generosity of spirit in showing a pupil how something is to be used as well as in admonishing her for using it in ways…
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A critique of CBT – Part 1
Update: I’ve written some later reflections on CBT entitled “A Re-Evaluation of CBT.” The latter post is the culmination of over a year of working with conversation partners whose previous experiences were in cognitive therapies. Throughout, it should be borne in mind that I consider philosophical practice (for more about which, see here) to bear no resemblance to…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 