Category: philosophical counseling
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Bring on my Fire People
Who among you has fire in his belly? Who is a hunter, sly in his approach? Who has not thought once of dragging his heels or of playing it safe? Who hears ‘shrink back, O soul,’ and laughs in his belly?
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Eloquence Training: Episode 1. Obstacles to Eloquence
I would define eloquence as saying the right thing in the right way with a sense of ease. An eloquent person, then, is someone who often or almost always speaks eloquently. In this introductory episode, I speak with my partner Alexandra about what it was like for her to grow up without being able to…
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The Big Thing: Going Beyond the Challenge
There are grander terms than challenges and hurdles, and we must come to these. These are mountain terms, seafaring terms, acrobatic terms, martial terms. I want The Big Thing, and it has nothing to do with the weak-kneed ‘challenge at work’ or ‘minor obstacle I’m facing at home.’ What is The Big Thing? It can…
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Nietzsche on the Life Lived Most Intensely
Lucy Ferry cogently on Nietzsche: In short, in this [Nietzschean] morality of grandeur, it is intensity that has primacy; the will to power carries the day against all other considerations: “There is nothing to life that has value except the degree of power!” This does not mean that there is no such thing as value.…
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Sentimentality and Compassion, or Fire in the Belly
Those who can breathe the air of my writings know that it is an air of the heights, a strong air…. Philosophy, as I have so far understood and lived it, means voluntarily living among ice and high mountains… How much truth does a spirit endure, how much does it dare? More and more that became for…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 