Category: philosophical counseling

• January 15, 2014

  What is it that we are grieving for?

  When we grieve for someone, some being, or something, what is it that we are grieving for? Surely, we cannot grieve for some inanimate or inorganic thing; it follows that this being has to have–or, rather, has to be imbued with–life. Just as surely, we cannot grieve for some being unless that being has passed out…
• January 14, 2014

  Website transformed: Radiance Pianissimo (Winter 2014)

  Dear Reader, Each season Aleksandra and I make changes to the main website–andrewjamestaggart.com–so that it accords with the changing rhythms of nature. Our theme for winter 2014 is ‘Radiance Pianissimo.’ This winter, though, we took things much, much further: we reworked the main website from the ground up. We wanted 1.) to show more and…
• January 13, 2014

  Sustaining life is not the good life

  I write this post after spending time this morning contemplating the nature of things. This post is not a ‘product’ of that contemplation. * In Sources of the Self, Charles Taylor has some remarkable things to say about the disappearance of the higher forms of the good life during the passage to modernity. He argues that…
• January 11, 2014

  Invitation: 3 months, 3 small patrons, 1 life transformed

  Invitation This post is  an investigation of a perplexing case concerning how a young person and I can work together as well as an invitation to a young person who would like to. If the following scenario applies to you and you’d like to get in touch with me, you can do so through the…
• January 4, 2014

  Love, friendship, and work

  In Sources of the Self, the philosopher Charles Taylor argues that what is distinctive about the modern world is that many of us have come to regard the claims of ordinary life as being ultimately fulfilling. Someone’s falling in love, raising a family, maintaing a close-knit group of friends, and doing meaningful work would, on this…