Tag: happiness

• October 16, 2011

  On birthdays as last days

  Here’s my short essay on public philosophy, education, and our spiritual predicament at Butterflies and Wheels. — I’m spending my birthday tomorrow fasting and meditating. The following is an excerpt from Pierre Hadot, The Present Alone is Our Happiness; Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Marc Djaballah, Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2009, 162-6. — Jeannie…
• September 3, 2011

  Gary Gutting on happiness, philosophy, and science

  Update: If you found my website by way of Arts and Letters Daily and if you’re interested in learning more about philosophical counseling in general or my philosophy practice in particular, you might try taking the following path: First, “On Prescribing Aristotle: Show Transcript and Clarifications”; Second, “A Few Essays on Philosophy as a Way of Life”; Third, “Toward…