Freedom and Flourishing

  Everyone knows that resilience is important in coping with misfortune. However, it may be more important than I had thought. My attentio...

  I pondered the above question as I read Fred D Miller’s book, Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics (published in 1995). Al...

  I asked myself the question posed above as I was reading Mich èle Lamont’s book , Seeing Others , How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World...

  Some readers will be wondering what the question means. What is this daimon? How does it relate to eudaimonia? How can you identify your d...

  I have read a great deal of the fiction written by Jean Paul Sartre, but my knowledge of his philosophical works is second-hand. I read Na...

  In my discussion of Steven Pinker’s book, Rationality, I referred to his observation that people tend to have a reality mindset in the wo...

Vipassana is an ancient form of meditation based on practice of equanimity in observation of physical sensations and thoughts. As people who...

  “Politics of Being” is title of a recently published book by Thomas Legrand. The subtitle is “Wisdom and science for a new development pa...

  The kid in the photo believed that the material world is an illusion. Those beliefs about the nature of reality probably led him to be som...