Tag: Good Life
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Having Lives to Lead: Part 2
In the last post, I began with a simple yet unshakable intuition, which was that you and I want to make something of ourselves, to do something with our lives. I went on to suggest that two assumptions about leading our lives and realizing ourselves are at the root of this intuition. What does this…
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Nietzsche on the Life Lived Most Intensely
Lucy Ferry cogently on Nietzsche: In short, in this [Nietzschean] morality of grandeur, it is intensity that has primacy; the will to power carries the day against all other considerations: “There is nothing to life that has value except the degree of power!” This does not mean that there is no such thing as value.…
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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. 