How am I not myself?
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View ArticleEditing Your Life’s Stories Can Create Happier Endings : Shots – Health News...
Wilson has been studying how small changes in a person\’s own stories and memories can help with emotional health. He calls the process \”story editing.\” And he says small tweaks in the interpretation...
View ArticlePlayfulness: the Point of Existence
“A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual...
View ArticleSome More on Loving Struggle
After a few days of rest, meditation, and a couple of public dialogs, the importance of existential communication or loving struggle became all the more clear to me. So, near the end of the evening, I...
View ArticleThe Prize
Possible Existenz is always a surprise because there is no reprising it as objective experience. Unrepeatable and unutterable, Existenz is as nothing to the enterprises of the everyday which comprise...
View ArticleWe are dead stars | the Atlantic
The buddy-friend-guy just played this for me. Really nice account of our relation to the cosmic order. Every atom in our bodies was fused in an ancient star. NASA astronomer Dr. Michelle Thaller...
View ArticleTeachers must Care; Students must Attend
That is, mentors must be engaged with mentoring people, seeing the student as an Existenz, with all of the possibility that this entails. And learners must attend, being fully now/here wherever they...
View ArticleDiverse Lineages of Existentialism Conference
…[This] conference offered a vision for what philosophy can be as an intellectual pursuit and what professional philosophy could look like. Such a vision is critically important not only for young...
View ArticleZanotti Explores the Philosophy of Everyday Life
In his first chapter, “What Is Philosophy?” Zanotti explains precisely why philosophy and life are so intimately bound together. The author recalls a time when he reached a crossroads in life, and was...
View ArticleDecision
If I am no longer the man I was, it is because I decide to become the man I will be. La Huega, Ica by Billy Hare (1984). ©May be protected by copyright. Fair use.Filed under: Art/Skill/Techne Tagged:...
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