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Montaigne in a Selfie Culture, part 1.
“Would Socrates, I wonder, take a selfie in the Agora?” Continue reading
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My Summer with Montaigne – “Of Experience.”
I have seen the grass, the flower, and the fruit; now I see the dryness–happily, since it is naturally. (III.2) I find great pleasure in existence, and much joy. With the advancing years, however, there is much that has fallen away in this regard, making what remains all the more subject to my attention. For Continue reading
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My Summer With Montaigne – “He’s a jumble of contradictions.”
“For thirty years I have kept Donald M. Frame’s translation of “The Complete Works of Montaigne” at, if not bedside, hand.” ~ Gore Vidal I was working in the campground. We’d had a violent thunderstorm the previous night and branches were down and stuff was strewn about. A woman approached. She was not young and Continue reading
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My Summer with Montaigne – “What, have you not lived?”
I am infused with a baby-boomer’s, mid-western ethic to produce. I am not alone in this. It is our culture. As a capitalistic society if we don’t produce and consume, everything will come to a halt, or so we are told. My work ethic has served me well and I enjoy the benefits of my Continue reading
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My Summer with Montaigne: “To Learn to Philosophize is to Learn to Die”
Many years ago in high school, or perhaps it was middle school, I can’t recall, my teacher placed on a table a one hundred-year calendar. There were two standard pages together containing 100 little boxed years, and within each box, 12 month boxes, and smaller still, such that you had to squint or use a Continue reading
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