Category: philosophical counseling
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Malcolm Harris on bad education
From n+1: Harris’s punch line: “[H]igher education, for-profit or not, has increasingly become a scam.” To review: “Since 1978, the price of tuition at US colleges has increased over 900 percent, 650 points above inflation.” And how have students paid for ever rising tuition? By taking out loans, federally back and hence low risk. Harris’s…
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A lullaby composed the morning after walking home on a warm night in Brooklyn (April 25, 2011)
Did you feel the fog last night, my friend, did you feel the warmth of the night? In the midst of the mist of the night, my friend, did you feel the warmth of the night? And was it then that you opened up your heart, was it then that you felt whole? Did you…
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Ethics and aesthetics are one (house sitting in Brooklyn)
The curtains are pulled back, and the magnolia stands in full bloom, its petals like painted seashells collecting below. It takes up the bedroom window, only softly. In the yard off to the right, bikes, baskets, handle bars lean against a chainlink-wooden fence. A pumpkin, small and orange, sits half-submerged in the spring marsh. Through…
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On my provisional conception of philosophical counseling
I think I’ve got the hang of philosophical counseling. Through philosophical conversation, we clarify the model for living that you hitherto, and often unconsciously, adopted. In the act of clarifying, we also discover the intrinsic structural unsoundness of this form of life: we honor the ways it can satisfy some of your desires while alighting on…
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John Armstrong on the life blood of civilization
J.E. Lendon favorably reviews John Armstrong’s In Search of Civilization. The upshot of Armstrong’s book, Lendon means to show, is that economic liberty entails artistic liberty. Here are a few highlights from the review: The two imps of the ancient mind, that wealth is either irrelevant to the good life or its bane, still rule…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 