Category: ethics
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Money Money Money!; or, That Great Unthinking Life of the Writer (Part 1)
Here’s my blog over at Big Other on money and the life of the mind.
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Raymond Geuss on the role of the humanities in an open society
In this 5-min. clip, the philosopher Raymond Geuss argues that self-knowledge is at the heart of humanistic inquiry. — John Madera and I over at Big Other. John Madera Hi, Andrew. I’m not sure if we can, like Raymond Geuss seems to, take for granted that the pursuit of self-knowledge is an impulse, that it…
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On legitimacy and financial stability
Financial Stability In response to my Inside Higher Ed piece, “Models for Post-University Life,” one sharp poster named Minal wrote, This is a great article, but I have 2 follow-up questions: 1. Can you give us some non-academic examples? Perhaps intellectuals (writers/medical professionals, etc.) who fit in the 3rd category? 2. How does the Person…
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Letting go of anger
Goals Moderate: The goal is not to manage anger; it is to make anger subside. Stringent: The goal is not to cope with anger; it is to ensure that anger doesn’t arise. What is Anger? Anger is the belief that someone has (1) deliberately harmed you and (2) that retaliation (in thought or deed) is…
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On speculative philosophical biography
The strange thing about philosophy is that it is supposed to be lived or, if not lived, then livable. I call this “strange” because no one would say that a biologist should live biology or a surgeon live surgery. But for a philosopher not to live philosophically seems a contradiction in terms. At least that…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 