Tag: Modes

• June 11, 2015

  Contests, Modes of Toughness, and the Spirit of Our Times

  Not everything in life is a contest but surely some things are. In a contest, I struggle, I risk something, I stake myself. I can avoid contests but only at the cost of avoiding becoming a more excellent human being. I doubt whether we can continue to avoid the contests we face in the coming years. Some…
• July 23, 2013

  A good human life flows according to nature

  The following occurred to one conversation partner and me yesterday morning. After our philosophical conversation, I ate lunch, then went for a climb, only to be brought home by the early afternoon desert rain. * A good human life flows according to basic categories (or modes) of human experience: movement, rest, thinking, conversing, having sex,…