Tag: philosophy
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Courage Is The Most Important Virtue For Our Time
In 2012, I argued, “The most important virtue for our time is courage.” Yesterday, I read Christopher Rufo’s manifesto, “New Right Activism,” in which he states, “The most important virtue of our time is courage.” Despite the fact that Rufo’s claim is situated within a particular political context–for him, it’s the New Right’s attempt to…
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Self-control As An Aid For The Inward Turn
The nondual teaching says that one must turn inward in order to know that one is, right here and right now, being-peace. And yet, actually turning inward seems, at first, to be nearly impossible. I touch on this conundrum in this talk: The question then arises, “What is it that makes an inward turn possible?”…
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The Bogeyman Fallacy In Spirituality
When you’re a child, you might, at some point, become afraid of whatever goes bump in the night and, in particular, of the bogeyman. For a while, you might close your eyes and hope that by virtue of your falling asleep, he won’t appear. But this won’t do since sleeping children could still be bothered,…
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Where Are These Elders Of Which You Speak?
I’m currently reading Shannon Vallor’s fine book Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (OUP, 2016). I’d like to pick up on a minor theme, one that frequently puzzled me when I’ve been reading certain kinds of academic books. It goes something like this: The theoretical discussion of the kind…
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‘I Am Not Of The World, Yet I Am In It’
‘I Am Not Of The World’ I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 