Month: March 2014

• March 31, 2014

  ‘Going slowly, we avoid disaster…’

  Going slowly, we avoid disaster. Going fast, we court it. Looking at things impartially, we understand them clearly. There is no room for harm or for complaints or for ‘voices’ to be ‘heard.’ We do not churn with things or vent them or spew them out; we do not turn with them because they do not…
• March 27, 2014

  Philosophical Portraiture: ‘The Inner Citadel’

    Two faces of the ‘Inner Citadel,’ a philosophical portrait drawn in charcoal by Aleksandra Marcella Lauro. (The reference is to Pierre Hadot’s book on Marcus Aurelius.)
• March 26, 2014

  Concordance: The world’s beauty and beauty of soul

  There is a concordance between the world’s beauty and the beauty of one’s soul. Beauty makes itself available. Only, the soul must be ready. The ready soul is a beautiful soul. Beauty of soul is not easy to achieve. Yet once achieved, concordance is achieved.
• March 25, 2014

  Philosophy in the Popular Imagination

  The March/April 2014 issue of Philosophy Now, a magazine of philosophical ideas, is out. My contribution, ‘Philosophy in the Popular Imagination,’ can be read online here.  
• March 24, 2014

  Writing Blog Tour: My Life as a Philosopher

  The Writing Blog Tour consists of two parts: answering four questions having to do with the process of writing and introducing some friends who, in turn, will do the same the following week. So far as I can tell, this collective project began sometime last summer and has since continued apace. In some respects, the idea resembles an…