Month: May 2020
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Sparkles On The Lake: Philosophy As Artistic & Spiritual Practice. Guy Sengstock & Andrew Taggart
Guy Sengstock: And now right there I felt a sense of ecstaticness. Andrew Taggart: And how would you describe the sense of ecstaticness? Guy Sengstock: I can see it and feel it. It’s the same intensity of color and brightness as the sun reflecting on the lake. Like the tingles coming off the ripples of…
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Memorial Day, Quarantine Fatigue, And Dried-up Secular Culture
Memorial Day Many mainstream news outlets reported that partygoers failed to observe social distancing guidelines at a Lake of the Ozarks Memorial Day party that was jam-packed with people. While no laws were broken, Missouri officials have since recommended that anyone who attended the party voluntarily quarantine himself or herself for 14 days. This shouldn’t…
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Work Is Nothing Special: See This And Be Free
One thing that has become clearer to me since reading Michael Walzer’s The Revolution of the Saints (1965) is that we probably owe our fetishization of work in key part and in one specific way to the Puritans. Let me explain. What’s interesting about Puritans is that they averred that each believer had a “particular calling,” one, to…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 