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Reflections in the spirit of Henry Thoreau ("Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." ) and William James ("the really vital question for us all is, What is this world going to be? What is life eventually to make of itself?"). Blogging at jposopher.blogspot.com and delightsprings.blogspot.com, tweeting @osopher.
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My Opinion Podcast at Tennessee by Phil Oliverעל ידי Phil Oliver
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A snippet of Vin Scully's last broadcast, in San Francisco 10.2.16.על ידי Phil Oliver
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"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year,” and get on with it."על ידי Phil Oliver
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Ockham's razor, Somerset Maugham, William James, and "salvation"על ידי Phil Oliver
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There's an intellectual form of self-neutering that's worse, in some ways, than the tragedy of Abelard and Heloise.על ידי Phil Oliver
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Our fourth and final Lifelong Learner's Happiness class at MTSU will glean the wisdom of Montaigne, Hume, James, Russell, Csikszentmihalyi, and Jennifer Michael Hecht. "Hang a sign that says HOME on a tree and you're done." And, Dr. Seuss: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”על ידי Phil Oliver
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In search of Reality itself, we might do better to focus on lower-case realities like a well-pitched softball game or a World Series championship.על ידי Phil Oliver
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"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."על ידי Phil Oliver
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A better world has to be possible.על ידי Phil Oliver
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J.S. Mill recovered from overzealous homeschooling with the aid of music and poetry.על ידי Phil Oliver
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Individual & collective happiness; desire, boredom, loving life as it is.על ידי Phil Oliver
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Seneca, Stoics, Schopenhauer - if your "deeper nature" isn't happy enough, can you change it?על ידי Phil Oliver
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Study Abroad course July 2016-American philosophy, British roots
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Come on along! Details at delightsprings.blogspot.com.על ידי Phil Oliver
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Haybron's ch8על ידי Phil Oliver
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From Daniel Haybron's "Very Short Inroduction" ch5.על ידי Phil Oliver
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Looking at "This I Believe," and the conviction of some of us that the best philosophy comes from "feet on the ground."על ידי Phil Oliver
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So said Willa Cather, via Maria Popova.על ידי Phil Oliver
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Looking back at last year's Opening Day of the academic season, as this year's approaches.על ידי Phil Oliver
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In anticipation of a new academic year, reflections on why and how we play this college game and a tip to take the time YOU need to get what college can give you.על ידי Phil Oliver
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2d installment of the Springs project, a slow-read recording of "William James's 'Springs of Delight'-the Return to Life" (Vanderbilt Press, 2001), read by author Phil Oliver.על ידי Phil Oliver
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Nothing should be more important to a young person than finding meaningful work.על ידי Phil Oliver
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We are a young species, the real world awaits our discovery, new horizons beckon.על ידי Phil Oliver
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Wordsworth, Thoreau, and "the simple pleasures of a stroll"-close as we'll come to immortality.על ידי Phil Oliver
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