I discuss a learning outcome of the Western Carolina University, Department of Philosophy and Religion, which focuses on a student's development and pursuit of a meaningful, thriving, well-lived life, as a corrective to the poverty of existential reflection in the academy. We achieve this ...
Potentially every man is a philosopher because in the depths of his being there is an intense longing to penetrate to the meaning of the mysteries of existence. The inner deep longing expresses itself in various ways prior to any actual study of philosophy as a technical branch of human cultur...
Inspiring as it seems on first inspection, the self-help motto "live in the present" rapidly loses its meaning. What would living in the present mean? To live each day as if it were your last, without a thought for the future, is simply a recipe for (1)___. The idea that one ca...
A key research program within the meaning in life (MIL) literature aims to identify the key contributors to MIL. The experience of existential mattering, purpose in life and a sense of coherence are currently posited as three primary contributors to MIL. However, it is unclear whether they en...
In the English language, “home” has many meanings. The Merriam Webster Dictionary online has sixteen unique definitions for home used as four different parts of speech. (Merriam-Webster) Home can be used as an emotion, an idea, an action, or even a philosophy! With all its interpretations...
Also today and very much related to this, Jess Duchen reminded me of the great romantic pianist Arthur Rubenstein, who upon a similar contrast of fate set upon a life of loving the world he created, for nothing brings about a miracle in time as much as unconditional love. His philosophy,...
It is an interesting question whether, as Matushansky (2002) argues, the meaning ofseemchanges across the pair (116). In our neo-Davidsonian framework where bothseems denote the property of being a seeming, the question boils down to whether these are the same seemings or not. A friend ...
or in the case of travel, country 而在他国旅行也只能让你看到这个国家的浅层风貌 but it is very difficult to delve deeper, with true meaning 很难进行具有真正意义的深入研究 That is because a few years at university 这是因为仅仅靠大学几年 studying various inter-related courses is not enough...
Hadot also seeks to explain the presence of logical or doctrinal inconsistencies in ancient philosophical writings (PWL, 61, lo6). He endeavors to recover the original meaning ofphilosophm and to explain these inconsistencies. In this far-ranging enterprise, Hadot acknowledges his special debt to ...
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