Tag: Radiance

• February 8, 2013

  Philosophical Improv no. 6: Mastery in the Practice of Living

  In this video, I propose an alternative formulation of radiance. On this construal, radiance just is mastery in the practice of living. 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…
• February 7, 2013

  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…
• February 5, 2013

  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…
• October 26, 2012

  Metanoia and radiance: A morning meditatio

  We are speaking again, as if for the first time or final day, about the puzzle of self-transformation. We say that self-transformation is final yet ongoing. We say also that it has an aim yet that its aim is not external but rather internal to the practice of philosophy. This makes self-transformation out to be…
• October 1, 2012

  On technology’s noises and nature’s silence

  At a pitstop en route to returning our rental car on Saturday, my love and I remarked that the automatic toilet flushers flushed before we were through. My manual flusher was also disconnected. I was thinking of these, perhaps, when I tried to get my weekend duffle–no large thing–into the plane’s overhead compartment and had…