Category: philosophical counseling
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‘That’s It; Your Body Goes In The Ground’
I was speaking with a boyhood friend this morning, someone with whom I hadn’t spoken in earnest in over 20 years, about happiness. In passing, he noted that life is short and that we only have a finite length of time to live. And that’s it. When I was 18, another friend, who’d been raised…
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We Need To Break The Spell: Against Secularism, Physicalism, & Humanism
I just finished reading Bernardo Kastrup’s excellent book The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality (2019). The book is a critique of the physicalist ontology and a spirited defense of an idealist ontology that, as I see it, is essentially nondualist. In this post, I’d like to comment…
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Political Freedom, Slavery, & Manual Labor In Classical Athens: Parts I & II
It took me a little while to write Part II, so I thought I’d include both in what follows. In Part I (also included below), I discussed Benjamin Constant’s important essay. In Part II, I turn to the question of manual labor in Classical Athens and, in particular, to the way in which labor, often…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 