Category: education

• January 20, 2014

  A non-solopsistic account of grieving

  In order to understand one’s reasons for grieving, let us return to this scene: We are speaking of our deaths. ‘Were I to die first, would you grieve for me?’ Aleksandra is speaking. ‘Yes,’ I reply. For a while, I say nothing. Then I go on: ‘I would have to figure out why I was still living.’…
• January 19, 2014

  Preparation for having a philosophical conversation

  The following post is addressed to new conversation partners as well as to philosophical friends. This worksheet (if that is what it is) is the result of a few years of conversing with conversation partners and philosophical friends over Skype. It should be considered a work in progress. That is, it is open to adjustments, reconsiderations, and…
• January 16, 2014

  ‘Were I to die first, would you grieve for me?’

  I am not satisfied with my understanding of the reasons we give when we are grieving. So I begin again, this time with an intimation. * We are speaking of our deaths. ‘Were I to die first, would you grieve for me?’ Aleksandra is speaking. ‘Yes,’ I reply. For a while, I say nothing. Then…
• January 14, 2014

  Website transformed: Radiance Pianissimo (Winter 2014)

  Dear Reader, Each season Aleksandra and I make changes to the main website–andrewjamestaggart.com–so that it accords with the changing rhythms of nature. Our theme for winter 2014 is ‘Radiance Pianissimo.’ This winter, though, we took things much, much further: we reworked the main website from the ground up. We wanted 1.) to show more and…
• January 11, 2014

  Invitation: 3 months, 3 small patrons, 1 life transformed

  Invitation This post is  an investigation of a perplexing case concerning how a young person and I can work together as well as an invitation to a young person who would like to. If the following scenario applies to you and you’d like to get in touch with me, you can do so through the…