Tag: Examination
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Philosophical portraiture by Aleksandra Marcella Lauro
Aleksandra is working on a series on philosophical portraiture. The ultimate aim is to depict a life either as it is in the midst of transforming or after it has been transformed. In this series, she seeks in particular to portray the salient virtues of an excellent human life. In the example below, we see Humility…
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Why humor is a saving grace and how life gets better with the really? are you so sure? question
I can’t possibly examine my life unless (1) I’m able to take a reflexive stance toward my desires, beliefs, and values and unless (2) I’m willing to test those desires, beliefs, and values. The first condition concerns my capacity to reorient myself toward my life while the second condition stakes the possibility of my thinking…
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You wander in philosophy in order to turn homeward
Wolfe was wrong when he said that you never can go home again. He was wrong because philosophy leads you home after your wandering. Only once you get there, you realize that the idea of home has changed, changed blessedly, blessedly changed. I Reading philosophers from all times and climes, I am struck by the…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 