Author: Andrew Taggart
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The beautiful soul in Strawberry Fields
David E. Cooper and I are writing about the notion of the beautiful soul. David argues that the beautiful soul will manifest beauty in his demeanor when the latter has learned to appreciate the beauty of things all around him. I want to see in this picture a certain meditative gracefulness embodied in the beautiful…
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On contempt and compassion
When contempt is no more, then compassion is all there is. When compassion is all there is, then contempt can have no room.
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Joan’s drawing
When, a few weeks back, Joan asked me whether I would like to have one of her drawings, I thought only, “Which one?” There are 30, perhaps as many as 40 drawings hanging in the fourth floor hallway. There were ones of younger frail women and others of cocksure men. Neither sort would suit. For…
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Philosophical friendships: A gentle refutation
A few days ago I tried to meet an objection to leading a philosophical life that ran something like this: “Andrew, it is all well and good for a philosopher to surround himself entirely with philosophical friends, but the rest of us live, and have to live, more ‘in the world,’ where living ‘in the…
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Portrait rendered in marker
My heartfelt thanks to one especially dear friend who drew this remarkable likeness of me.
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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