Month: January 2016

• January 15, 2016

  Moral Agency: Learning to Do the Right Thing

  What is the Right Thing to Do? You’re filled with pressing doubt about how to begin. Or you’re unable to make up your mind. Or you vacillate back and forth without end. Or you act impulsively, doing the first thing that strikes you, only to regret it afterward. Or you end up doing whatever others…
• January 12, 2016

  Money Rules for Simple Living: An Amazon Ebook

  Alexandra and I are happy to report that we have published our first ebook on Amazon. It’s an updated and revised version of Money Rules for Simple Living: A Very Brief Guide. In it, I explore how each of us can use money wisely during a time of greater economic precarity in order to live more simply. It…
• January 11, 2016

  Getting a Clear View of our Basic Beliefs

  After all these years of having philosophical conversations, I’m beginning to see something more clearly. Our everyday lives are built upon an elaborate edifice that itself rests on an unexamined basic belief or set of beliefs. We employ strategies, devise plans, create projects, and generally engage with others on the basis of this basic belief…
• January 6, 2016

  John O’Donohue on Being and Beauty

  A good friend of mine recently shared with me this interview with John O’Donohue, an interview that had moved him greatly. It was, we learn, one of the last interviews the Irish poet and philosopher O’Donohue gave before he died in 2008. I was so blown away by the startling beauty and perceptiveness that my desire…