Tag: Aristotle

• July 22, 2015

  The Predominance of Softness

  I am trying to investigate the prevalence of softness and the rarity of toughness because I believe that we have learned to be soft when it is time to get, and be, tough. Can we find another way into the predominance of softness? It has often been observed that ours is an Age of Anxiety or,…
• July 20, 2015

  Aristotle on Toughness

  We have become soft and it’s time to get tough. Aristotle says that “it is softness to fly from what is troublesome” and so the coward does. But then most of us are flying from what is troublesome. Can we even recall what courage is? Aristotle: The coward, the rash man, and the brave man, then, are…
• October 14, 2014

  Kaos Pilots: A Comprehensive View (Part 1)

  Kaos Pilots is a fairly unique school in that its students are taught by a wide array of guest lecturers who discuss a vast array of subjects. The latter include courses in business strategy, process consulting, and appreciative inquiry as well as workshops on personal development and theories of narrative–just to name a few. Over its…
• April 2, 2013

  A moral particularist’s friends

  A moral particularist thinks we can get on well enough, in a moral sense, without a ready supply of principles. What is right to do in one context may not be right to do in some other, but what is right to do in this context is determined by what is revealed in this context.…
• June 25, 2012

  There is no ‘double life’ in philosophical life

  One concern has been raised many times by many conversation partners in many quarters. It is that philosophical friendships and erotic lovers are rare. Yet if most of our lives are spent in the world among those of a non-philosophical persuasion, how are we to make sense of this “double life,” a life both apart from the…