Tag: life work

• October 24, 2011

  Pinning down philosophical counseling: Short & long & elliptical answers

  One of the questions I get quite often is what the hell is philosophical counseling. To be honest, I probably have this conversation just about every day. Here’s one example from an editor who will be publishing one of my essays on child-rearing and moral education. He tells me that I need to attach a…
• August 25, 2011

  On speculative philosophical biography: A conversation with Antonio Dias

  On April 5, in a post on the work and life of the artist Eric Gill, I wrote that “philosophical biography is the  study of how well a philosopher’s ideas are realized in his life, in the core of his being, in his thoughts, habits, and actions.” I suggested that speculative philosophical biography would thus be concerned with testing…