Category: philosophical counseling
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Website redesign: ‘Bending with Bending Life’ (Spring 2014)
Aleksandra and I are learning–in the words of the literary critic Eric Wasserman–a ‘subtler language.’ In this design, the colors and textures are softer and subtler, the overall design is simpler. We think the spring design, in comparison with the winter design (‘Radiance Pianissimo‘), is less epic and more humble. In this respect are we ‘bending…
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The Nordic man and the Book of Job: From ordinary to higher goods
The Book of Job made greater sense to me as I was having a philosophical conversation with a Nordic man the other day. About two years ago, this man, who had hitherto been stout and robust with a wife and two young children, learned that he had a heart condition. Never before had he been…
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How a hedonist says goodbye to hedonism
This reflection, springing from this morning’s philosophical conversation, is an attempt to iron out the transition out of hedonism. Because the transition was not as clear as I would have liked, I seek to clarify it in the following. * We want to begin not with a theory of hedonism but with a phenomenology of…
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Philosophizing’s folding back on itself
This meditation is inspired by a philosophical conversation that took place earlier this morning. * As living discourse between philosophical guide and philosophical friend, philosophizing ‘folds back’ on itself. If, unlike sages and gurus, philosophers never come with answers in hand, then they must inquire in order to understand. Then, how would the inquiry have to…
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Philosophical portraiture: The common ear
The screen shot included below is an example of philosophical portraiture by Aleksandra Marcella Lauro. Philosophical portraiture is concerned with the project of self-cultivation–specifically, with how one comes into contact with what is higher. Here, the figure on the viewer’s left is wholesome, earnest, yet naive in the ways of the world. The figure on…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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