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Thankful for Presence, Part 1: All and in All

What we need to emphasize then is that our universal claims to spiritual reality are better housed within our aspirations and moral ideals than as housed by any so-called objective descriptions which we have come to doubt as neither objective nor descriptive.

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Leadership and Business, Politics and Society, Spirituality

Arguments Matter, Part 3: Practical Tips

If you are going to argue with someone, you have to see them as rational; otherwise, arguing can’t reach them. You have to try to understand them on their own terms if you are going to give reasons that they see as reasons.

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Leadership and Business, Politics and Society, Spirituality

Why Arguments Matter, Part 2: Being Correct Isn’t Enough

Arguments matter because we live an embedded life in which reality determines moral life, and moral life determines reality. In other words, is it not only true but also legitimate? 

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Politics and Society, Spirituality

Arguments Matter, Part 1: The Problem With Beliefs

Let’s say you and a random social media user, disagree over abortion.... The answer to this question matters greatly. It’s not like a dispute over our particular tastes in food which can remain unresolved without jeopardizing our relationship – it must be settled.

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Childhood education, Politics and Society, Spirituality

Changing Language; Changing Identity

If common sense and superstition are two extremes on a knowledge spectrum, then a hard distinction contained in the folkish idea of speakers and doers is cozying up to superstition.

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Politics NOT Partisanship: an Arendtian Model

For Arendt, politics was the back-and-forth interplay between regular people in a democracy. Politics is the realm of freedom (The Human Condition) and will not only combat hyper-partisanship and raw power plays, but may even help us thrive even in the face of great collective challenges.

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Politics and Society, Spirituality

The Moral Stakes in Being Authentic

"It turns out that the concept of common goods is constitutive of pursuing one’s interests." 

Featured PostAuthenticity, Charles Taylor, Recognition, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Childhood education, Spirituality

My Three Religious Conversions

Now I sometimes say that I’m religiously bisexual because when I found Buddhist meditation, I felt more Christian than ever.

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Spirituality

Windshield Reflections #2

Little did she know that reading would be her competitor, my new mistress.

Featured Postaddiction, Authenticity, Mass Society, small townLeave a comment
Politics and Society, Spirituality

Moral Ideals and the Pathology of “Doing Your Best”

"... Development itself constantly changes the self’s possibilities such that what would count as one’s ‘best’ transforms in ways that are at once real and out of view."

Featured PostAuthenticity, Justice, Peace, Social Justice, Spirituality3 Comments

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The Sustenance of the Private Sphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inuJk1c7An8

Authenticity and Academic Writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oklxrBVTAI8

Arendt Beyond the Individual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bsXOHPWYu8

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