Category: ethics

• November 11, 2013

  ‘Clean the palate before each new word…’

  Words that came out of a morning meditation moments before a philosophical conversation: * Clean the palate before each new word. In order to receive each word as new. But each word is new. So, keep the palate clean always.
• November 9, 2013

  Either death is something for us, or else it is nothing for us…

  1. Either death is something for us, or else it is nothing for us. 2. If death is something for us, then we can either go along with it, or we can resist it. 2.1. If we resist it, then we will be filled with strife and ultimately we will lose. 2.2. If we go…
• November 1, 2013

  What makes for a good conversation partner in my philosophy practice?

  As I examine all of the conversation partners I have been fortunate enough to have philosophical conversations with in the past and present, I come to the tentative conclusions that certain things about them are necessary features and that certain things about the kinds of lives they lead are also necessary. The following features are…
• October 29, 2013

  The relevance of temperance for social entrepreneurs

  In Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that we cultivate the moral virtues by means of habituation and proper training. The right kind of education in courage will put us face-to-face with fear so that we can ‘learn to despise things that are terrible and to stand our ground against them.’ Later on in…
• October 26, 2013

  ‘The morning tree wavers, but the mind does not…’

  A poetic chant that came to me before a philosophical conversation earlier today. * 1 The morning tree wavers, but the mind does not. The mind, unwavering, is full of stillness. 2 When one thing comes to it, the mind takes the thing in hand. That and that thing only. When another thing comes to…