Month: September 2020
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The Essence Of Core Rinzai Zen
It has taken me some years to understand what Rinzai Zen is. In what follows, I’d like to outline the essence of what I’m calling “core Rinzai Zen.” I. Expression of Rinzai Zen’s Essence Consider these quotes from a Chan (Chinese Zen) master and a Buddhist philosopher: Guishan Lingyou (Chan master, 771-853): “Inquire exhaustively into the…
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The Limits Of A Relationship Boil Down To The Limits Of Its Participants
Integral theory suggests that the limits of any relationship boil down to the limits of the developmental capacities of its participants. (*) Below, I’ll show why, if true, this is an important insight. In his essay, “The Miracle of ‘We,” which can be found in the collected volume Cohering the Integral We Space, Ken Wilber concludes:…
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Andrew Taggart On The Jim Rutt Show: Narcissism, Culture, & Dying
I had a very enjoyable, and quite lively, conversation with Jim Rutt of the Jim Rutt Show. Here’s the link. And the description: In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Andrew Taggart about what philosophy is & once was, the impacts of our psychotherapeutic culture, the good life & virtue, narcissism, friends of utility, changing family dynamics, GameB, close community…
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Are You Meletus Or Socrates?
Each of us, right now, is presented with a choice: to be Meletus or Socrates. Most of us haven’t heard about Meletus and so, to be on the safe side, we may incline toward Socrates. But that is the dangerous option, as will be seen shortly. Meletus… Meletus is one of Socrates’s accusers in Plato’s…
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After Virtue 40 Years Later
I think this is the third or fourth time that I’ve read Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue (1981). What surprises me–each time–is just how good the book is. How insightful. How spot on. How prescient even in 2020. Here’s a brief summary of the first half of the book (since I haven’t finished it yet): First,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 