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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 OliverPar Phil Oliver
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A snippet of Vin Scully's last broadcast, in San Francisco 10.2.16.Par 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."Par Phil Oliver
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Ockham's razor, Somerset Maugham, William James, and "salvation"Par 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.Par 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.”Par 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.Par 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."Par Phil Oliver
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A better world has to be possible.Par Phil Oliver
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J.S. Mill recovered from overzealous homeschooling with the aid of music and poetry.Par Phil Oliver
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Individual & collective happiness; desire, boredom, loving life as it is.Par Phil Oliver
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Seneca, Stoics, Schopenhauer - if your "deeper nature" isn't happy enough, can you change it?Par Phil Oliver
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Come on along! Details at delightsprings.blogspot.com.Par Phil Oliver
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Haybron's ch8Par Phil Oliver
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From Daniel Haybron's "Very Short Inroduction" ch5.Par 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."Par Phil Oliver
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So said Willa Cather, via Maria Popova.Par Phil Oliver
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Looking back at last year's Opening Day of the academic season, as this year's approaches.Par 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.Par 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.Par Phil Oliver
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Nothing should be more important to a young person than finding meaningful work.Par Phil Oliver
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We are a young species, the real world awaits our discovery, new horizons beckon.Par Phil Oliver
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Wordsworth, Thoreau, and "the simple pleasures of a stroll"-close as we'll come to immortality.Par Phil Oliver
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