Tag: Training

• May 19, 2014

  Trying to understand mental activities

  Last time, I wrote about the common category mistakes we make. We are in error when we think of minding as it if were like the body or some bodily organ. It is not. Since minding is not only not the body but also not like the body, it follows that minding cannot be healthy or…
• April 22, 2014

  Overcoming burden: Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life

  This is the sixth set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). The first set of reflections can be read here. A summary of Stoterdijk’s principal theses is available here. * Recall that Stoterdijk is singularly focused on how the practicing animal can become more than he is. Having seceded from the buzz and…
• October 4, 2013

  How can a man embody manliness after three waves of feminism? (Part 3)

  We are inquiring into the man who embodies manliness. Manliness is a disposition that is neither Brawny (and hot-headed) nor Sensitive (and frail). If it is hard to come up with living examples of men who are manly and graceful (Cary Grant, perchance, though he is dead?), the reason could be that few seem to…