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Category: Positive Psychology

August 30, 2022
Escaping the Net: How Our Media Environment Poisons the Life of the Mind

Escaping the Net: How Our Media Environment Poisons the Life of the Mind

“But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! Keep me from the trap that they have set laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass safely” (Psalm 141:8-10 ESV). Hegel, the famous …

June 20, 2021
Goods: Intrinsic and Instrumental

Goods: Intrinsic and Instrumental

Human life, finite and incarnate, burns with desire, craving not only physical necessities such as food and drink, but yearning also for an ever elusive wholeness.  As the poet Novalis observed, “we seek the unconditioned, but all we ever find are things.” Man’s life is thus one of love and longing. We learn much about …

April 12, 2021
Pythagorean Practice

Pythagorean Practice

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Philosophy In this essay, I’d like to turn from investigating Pythagorean doctrine to examining Pythagorean practice. For Pythagoras identified philosophy not with a set of abstract doctrines to be grasped by the understanding alone, but with a way of life that purified and strengthened the soul. Porphyry, for instance, describes …

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