Philosophy
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Montaigne in a Selfie Culture, pt 11
Considering Montaigne and his decades-long self inquiry in this time of selfies and high reveal. Continue reading
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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 Year with Montaigne: Montaigne, the Traveler pt II
“Monsieur de Montaigne drank of the said water eleven mornings, nine glasses each for eight days and seven glasses each for three days, and bathed five times. He found the water easy to drink and always passed it before dinner.” The first third of so of the travel journals were written by Montaigne’s secretary, an Continue reading
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My Year with Montaigne–On Mindfulness
“Montaigne practiced a form of what we today call mindfulness through his essay writing. His quest in writing was to find out how to be ‘fully human” (sic) he tried to recognize when his thoughts went to ‘extraneous incidents.” He would then work to bring this thinking back to the here and now and the Continue reading
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My Year with Montaigne–a “Spiritual Teacher”
“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” To recap: My use of the word spiritual: the means by which the individual strives to be a better human being. To recap: Montaigne’s discipline of attention is extraordinary, especially related to self-reflection. Nietzsche said that all philosophy reflects the philosopher’s biography.1. One of the aversions Continue reading
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My Year with Montaigne–a Spiritual Teacher?
“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.” I was recently talking with a dear friend, a person on a deep spiritual journey with whom I have shared many books and ideas. We see one another only a couple times a year, but one of our standard catch-up questions is, “How is your Continue reading
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