Tag: Goodness
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Philosophical Improv no. 5: Radiance is not guruism
In this video, I seek to distinguish the radiant figure from the guru. In my forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, I discuss the important connection between goodness and beauty. To view other episodes in this series, you can visit my YouTube channel. I’m a Ph.D.-trained philosophical counselor who teaches individuals and organizations throughout the…
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Philosophical Improv no. 3: Attractiveness Thesis
In this video, I explore the thesis that the radiant figure is attractive. In my forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, I discuss the important connection between goodness and beauty. To view other episodes in this series, you can visit my YouTube channel. I’m a Ph.D.-trained philosophical counselor who teaches individuals and organizations throughout the…
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Philosophical Improv no. 2: Education Thesis
In this short video, I explore the thesis that the virtues must be ‘raised up’ to the point of beauty. In my forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, I discuss the important connection between goodness and beauty. To view other episodes in this series, you can visit my YouTube channel. I’m a Ph.D.-trained philosophical…
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Philosophical improv no. 1: Manifestation Thesis
In this short YouTube video, I explore the way in which radiance manifests itself. In my forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, I discuss the important connection between goodness and beauty.
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‘A radiant life, being good, expresses beauty…’
I am reading The Guidebook to Philosophical Life for the first time. I had written it without reading it through. Even now, I only read and mumble lines and phrases and stray poetic turns. I had written it but hadn’t realized the beauty of lines such as these. I have been reading them aloud this morning.…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 