Category: ethics
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Philosophical Improv no. 3: Attractiveness Thesis
In this video, I explore the thesis that the radiant figure is attractive. In my forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, I discuss the important connection between goodness and beauty. To view other episodes in this series, you can visit my YouTube channel. I’m a Ph.D.-trained philosophical counselor who teaches individuals and organizations throughout the…
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Philosophical improv no. 1: Manifestation Thesis
In this short YouTube video, I explore the way in which radiance manifests itself. In my forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, I discuss the important connection between goodness and beauty.
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Mountain life (An excerpt from Radiance)
A short excerpt from Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time. The book is in progress. * Out the window, snow begins falling on sienna; it is collecting fast. Until now, it has rained warmly three days straight and the ravines, dug out and meandering down the mountainside, had been rolling with sound, the green beneath the…
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Self-sufficiency in rural Appalachia
In rural Appalachia (the penultimate syllable pronounced like the ‘a’ in ‘apple’, not like the ‘a’ in ‘staple’), self-sufficiency is not an essential characteristic of Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover, the divine unmoved around which everything else moves. Nor is it the intrinsic property of Spinoza’s substance, that which is ontologically independent for its existence. For generation…
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E.F. Schumacher and post-industrial cottage industries
Since I have been corresponding more frequently with individuals at Schumacher College and The New Economics Institute (formerly known as The Schumacher Society), it seemed a good idea to read E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, a collection of thematically related essays on economics, ethics, and the nature of organizations. Published in…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 