Author: Andrew Taggart

• April 25, 2013

  Beauty of Soul: Course Schedule

  My  Short Course at Schumacher College, ‘Beauty of Soul, According to Nature,’ has now been posted on Schumacher College’s website. The course is set to run from November 4-8. I’m including an early draft of the Course Schedule below. Opening Talk ‘The Beautiful Life of the Virtues’ What would modern moral philosophers make of the following…
• April 23, 2013

  Beauty of Soul: A Short Course at Schumacher College

  My  Short Course at Schumacher College, ‘Beauty of Soul, According to Nature,’ has now been posted on Schumacher College’s website. The course is set to run from November 4-8. Please take a look, and come and join me in Totnes if you’re free. I hear it’s beautiful there. From time to time, I’ll be posting some…
• April 22, 2013

  The wisdom of one-liners

  Wisdom comes not in but through one-liners. The throughway is the entire expanse of a life of investigation which has been worked and shaped and magnified–like a vast, refined conclusion–into a single intuition. Condensed in that straight, parabolic line is the sinuous beauty of the speaker’s grainy union with the gulping, glorious cosmos. Hold to…
• April 19, 2013

  Knocking one hell of a squeeze out of life

  John O’Donohue: What would you say about the whole thing now that you’re about to leave it? [And this big roguish smile crossed his visage.] The Man on his Deathbed: By Jesus, I knocked a hell of a squeeze out of it. The Irishman’s words are goodness lifted into beauty. It is the light humor exemplified…
• April 18, 2013

  Hurry up: A parable

  Two men spend exactly two minutes looking at the cross section of a cutdown tree. Both men have the same sensory equipment (eyes, ears, tongues, etc.). Both have the same cognitive equipment (capacity for concentrating, attending,  inferring, etc.). Both are walking at the same rate and that rate is such as not to prove laborious…