Category: philosophical counseling
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A Commitment To The Cosmos
Look, somewhere down the line we killed the cosmos and we’re living long, long, long after that enveloping we once knew. Living limply afterward. This was a very bad idea. Existentialism starts off from the death of the cosmos and then advises us to buck and embrace our own lonely freedom. Even worse. Without a…
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Discontent Is Really Everywhere–In You
There’s that nagging thing. You forget when it started. You’ve done a lot to try to get rid of it and, barring that, to diminish it. Remember? There was that one thing you did–that was pretty crazy. But not just that one thing either. Think of all the zany antics and mental gymnastics you’ve been…
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We Are Busy People Despite What The Research Says
Research suggests that we’re not as objectively busy as we think we are. Accepting the research findings, Kyle Kowalski then provides hypotheses, which seek to explain why we might feel so busy anyway. My tack? It’s more elemental. I simply reject the premise upon which the research findings are based. It’s not strictly a question of measuring how…
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In Search Of A Central Question
Imagine this. It’s just barely 1970, you’ve been living in San Francisco, and here have come psychedelics, hippies, and Eastern religions all seemingly out of nowhere. You want to know, don’t you?, what’s going on and what it means for individual and collective human development. Guess what? You don’t have to exert your imagine too much…
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Idolatry And The Dynamics Of Faith
The theologian Paul Tillich opens his book The Dynamics of Faith (1956) by asserting that “[f]aith is a state of being ultimately concerned.” Idolatry he defines as the elevation of a matter of provisional concern to one of ultimate concern. It is 1956, just 12 years after WWII, and Tillich, born a German, is living and teaching…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 