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Philosophy in Everyday Life: All Things Shining
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Philosophy in Everyday Life. October 25, 2012. In their book All Things Shining. Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly claim that in order to lead meaningful lives we have to go back to the mode of being of the Homeric Greeks. This is a striking and puzzling claim. How is one supposed to use it? The most obvious way might be akin to how Wittgenstein suggested one use the. Whether one stopped doing philosophy was for him a sign of whether one understood the book. However, this way of thinking of the. Was only pos...
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Philosophy in Everyday Life: Detached Identification
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Philosophy in Everyday Life. October 6, 2012. There is an experience I often had in my philosophy education. It was prevalent in my college, as well as my graduate, studies. In retrospect I can see how this experience laid the foundations for my eventual departure from the profession. I will call it the detached identification experience. Why don't you identify with them? What, you think your thinking is so special, so much better than them? Am I crossing some line of professional and personal decency?
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Philosophy in Everyday Life: Moving On
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Philosophy in Everyday Life. November 5, 2012. Is blogging holding me back? Is it a way in which I am still clinging to my old academic life? Is it a crutch I am depending on because I am afraid to be in the world on my own? If so, maybe it is time to let go of the crutch and to walk on my own two feet into the new world with philosophy in my heart, and not necessarily as a achievement which I can point to ("There! That blog is what I have achieved in my life! Why do I feel such a need to have the blog?
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Philosophy in Everyday Life: April 2012
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Philosophy in Everyday Life. April 29, 2012. The Pretend Doubt Phenomenon. There is a phenomenon which often happens in philosophy classrooms. I will call it the pretend doubt phenomenon. An example. It is the first day of an introductory ethics class. The professor raises the questions, What is ethics? Why does it matter? A moment of reflection has been introduced. The students await the answer. The professor continues, Ethics is the study of values. Are there any objective values? How can we know?
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Philosophy in Everyday Life: July 2012
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Philosophy in Everyday Life. July 30, 2012. Balancing Philosophy and Life. In my previous post. I gave one reason I havent been blogging. There is another reason as well. It is that I was having difficulty balancing my philosophy and my everyday life. July 19, 2012. Guilt, You Don't Own Me. I havent blogged in more than a month. It was partly because it was good to take a break. Recharge. Clear my head. But there was another reason too. And I could feel it even as I was finishing my previous post. Here w...
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Philosophy in Everyday Life: October 2012
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Philosophy in Everyday Life. October 25, 2012. In their book All Things Shining. Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly claim that in order to lead meaningful lives we have to go back to the mode of being of the Homeric Greeks. This is a striking and puzzling claim. How is one supposed to use it? The most obvious way might be akin to how Wittgenstein suggested one use the. Whether one stopped doing philosophy was for him a sign of whether one understood the book. However, this way of thinking of the. Was only pos...
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Philosophy in Everyday Life: August 2012
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Philosophy in Everyday Life. August 27, 2012. Words once in common use now sound so archaic. And the names of the famous dead as well: Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Dentatus. Everything fades so quickly, turns into legend, and soon oblivion covers it. And those are the ones who shone. The rest - unknown, unasked for a minute after death. What is eternal fame? Emptiness. Then what should we work for? Or Rawls living in the projects as a drug addict? He is the very exemplar of being an athlete! For their lives...
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Philosophy in Everyday Life: September 2012
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Philosophy in Everyday Life. September 10, 2012. BV: Ludwig, you are generally quite critical of academic philosophy. What then do you make of your students, many of whom went on to have pretty normal academic lives? For example, what do you think of Anscombe, who many now consider the best among your students and an exemplary philosopher in her own right? LW: Anscombe was intense. She would focus in on a problem and battle with it. But this doesnt mean I agreed with her! BV: It is ironic, isnt it, that ...
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Philosophy in Everyday Life: Goodbye Monk Idea
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Philosophy in Everyday Life. October 14, 2012. I am not a monk. I am not a monk. I am not a monk. I am not a monk. When I left the philosophy profession a part of me thought that I was now truly embarking on my monk path. That is, even though I was married and I was not part of any spiritual institution. So outwardly not a monk. But somehow, inwardly, finally, truly on the path of my monk calling. I don't think it can in the same way it did in the past. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).