Category: politics
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Kaos Pilots: Making a Difference
Yesterday, I began to discuss what Kaos Pilots is; today I will discuss what it could become. I suggested that what could unify the school would be (i) the cultivation of character, (ii) the articulation of a finite set of final aims, and (iii) the attempt to draw a comprehensive picture of a set of prima facie competing…
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The Fall of the Warrior and the the Idea of the Noble
In The Good Life and Sustaining Life: An Inquiry into Our Great Vexation (in progress), I write, I have included the figure of the warrior in the schema but not without some reservations since I am not at all sure whether the heroic life is possible in modernity. Many societies have held the aristocrat-warrior in…
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The Good Life and Sustaining Life: Vague Words and Well-specified Questions
Certain philosophical terms have been slowly creeping into business culture and everyday speech, terms such as ‘meaning,’ ‘value,’ ‘direction,’ and ‘purpose,’ without its being possible, with any clarity or analytical rigor, to pin down their meanings. Calling a project ‘meaningful’ implies that one is drawing a line between projects that are not meaningful and those…
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The Good Life and Sustaining Life: Definitions (Excerpt)
Preliminary Remark The good life and sustaining life are two separate, albeit connected, concepts. How they are connected, when they are connected properly, is the subject of this philosophical investigation. Definitions and Distinctions 1. By ‘the good life,’ I mean that for the sake of which one ultimately lives. 2. Throughout the course of this…
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The Good Life and Sustaining Life: An Inquiry into Our Great Vexation (An excerpt)
Preface: Our Great Vexation There may be no greater vexation in our time than the question of how to make a living in a manner that accords with leading a good life. Laypersons may evade the question merely by closing their eyes and keeping their heads down; doing so involves the great effort of remaining…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 