Month: June 2012
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On contempt and compassion
When contempt is no more, then compassion is all there is. When compassion is all there is, then contempt can have no room.
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Joan’s drawing
When, a few weeks back, Joan asked me whether I would like to have one of her drawings, I thought only, “Which one?” There are 30, perhaps as many as 40 drawings hanging in the fourth floor hallway. There were ones of younger frail women and others of cocksure men. Neither sort would suit. For…
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Philosophical friendships: A gentle refutation
A few days ago I tried to meet an objection to leading a philosophical life that ran something like this: “Andrew, it is all well and good for a philosopher to surround himself entirely with philosophical friends, but the rest of us live, and have to live, more ‘in the world,’ where living ‘in the…
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Portrait rendered in marker
My heartfelt thanks to one especially dear friend who drew this remarkable likeness of me.
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What is it like for someone not to ‘get me’?
“[E]loquence consists of saying the right things and only the right things.” –Rochefoucauld What is it like for someone not to ‘get me?’ She can be focused on me but ask the wrong questions. He can be focused on me but look at the wrong things. She can care for me but fail to recognize…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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