Category: ethics
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Public lectures on philosophy as a way of life
Peter Adamson, a professor of ancient philosophy at Kings College London, is in the midst of recording an extensive number of 20-25 minute lectures addressed to the generally educated person on the “history of philosophy without any gaps.” His lectures on Aristotle’s ethics are fine and lucid as are his talks on the Cynics and the Cyrenaics.…
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On 3 needful jobs in the 21st C.
Methodology Today I’ll be doing one kind of speculative philosophy. I’ll be asking what kinds of jobs may be needful in the coming years. These will be jobs I’ve made up because they don’t yet exist. I’ll be basing my speculative inquiry on a number of assumptions about the present social world. (These assumptions may…
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On blurbs and encomia
Had my encomium been turned into a blurb? On Sunday, I’d received a nice note in my inbox to the effect that the first issue of the Journal of Modern Wisdom had been selling at a good clip at the local book shops in Cambridge. A few weeks prior, I’d sent a favorable review of JMW…
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A message to the post-graduate reader
Dear post-graduate reader writing from the future, I thought it was time to address you directly. You get in touch with me, oh, maybe about once a week, you ask a litany of questions, and I vacillate between not replying to your exorbitant requests, writing the briefest of suggestions, and venturing lengthy answers. You’ve graduated from…
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When I’m running low on food…
When I’m running low on food, I leave my coat and keys where they are. I have a look around and spend another day and then another with what I have around me. I mix them all around me and make my mouth anew. “Make do with what you have?” No, savor whatever passes through your hands.
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 