Category: education
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From work = life to working and resting: A 2nd essay
First Essay: Work = Life In the past 6 months, I have written frequently about the work/life divide. It should be said at the outset that industrial capitalism inaugurated two startling, world-historical changes. First, it transformed labor into a commodity to be bought and sold in the marketplace. Second, it made work into the kind…
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A letter written by a Doctors Without Borders friend of mine upon arriving in South Sudan
The following is a letter a friend of mine wrote about her first experiences as an obstetrician and surgeon working for Doctors Without Borders in South Sudan. Her letter gives the reader a good sense of the state of medical care in some of the harder hit areas of central Africa. D.H. Lawrence is said to…
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On Stoical exercise
I am writing to you from my inner citadel fortified by my moral purpose. My outer citadel is located on high ground in the Upper East Side. Irene rains grayly outside. Yesterday I was restless, but today I am calm. This can easily be explained: I have kept up with my philosophical exercises and have…
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The Stoics on Hurricane Irene: There is much you can do but you can’t do everything.
Update: In this Wash Post piece, you can check out my book recommendations on how to think clearly about Hurricane Irene. Also at Wash Post: Here you can read the Aug. 24 transcript of my live chat about philosophical counseling. — Philosophy is an ongoing practice in living well. Here you can read a few of my essays on…
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On speculative philosophical biography: A conversation with Antonio Dias
On April 5, in a post on the work and life of the artist Eric Gill, I wrote that “philosophical biography is the study of how well a philosopher’s ideas are realized in his life, in the core of his being, in his thoughts, habits, and actions.” I suggested that speculative philosophical biography would thus be concerned with testing…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 