Pursuing Wisdom
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A Growing Resource for Supporting That Practice Which Develops Wisdom
If you’ve visited this site in the past, you may notice it now looks rather different. I’m in the process of slowly converting it into a resource for philosophy as a manner of living. This, by the way, means an embodied pursuit of and personal development in truth, goodness, and so forth. Or put differently,…
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A short piece on “buddha-nature” …
and how it may give us something to look to and rely on in the midst of an impermanent and unstable reality: (Published on Wise & Shine.)
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The Eightfold Path: A Non-Technical Overview
This is a non-technical, non-comprehensive overview of what is known as the Eightfold Path or the Noble Eightfold Path. It doesn’t try to give you the complete formulas for each part of the path. Instead it tries to give you a good idea of what is involved in each of the path’s eight parts, in…
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Epicurus, Happiness, Moderation with Food
The philosopher Epicurus had many interesting ideas about how to achieve happiness in life. Some of these ideas were about our relationship with food and drink. Epicurus recommended that anyone who wanted to be happy should learn to be extremely moderate in what they ate and drank. He emphasized sticking to foods that were simple,…
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What Is Logic-Based Consultation?
Logic-Based Consultation is a method or framework for individual philosophical consultation. I like to think of it as a unique approach to problem-solving for many of life’s ordinary, but quite real, difficulties, struggles, and concerns. Rather than start by brainstorming swaths of ideas which may or may not work, philosophical consultation begins by constructing an…
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Of the Stoic Fundamental Distinction (#1)
What’s within your control and what isn’t. What depends on you and what doesn’t. If you’ve much familiarity with Stoic philosophy, perhaps even superficially, you’re likely familiar with those phrases, two different ways of marking the same, ever so crucial difference. It’s above all in Epictetus that the distinction features so prominently. The “Enchiridion,” also…
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About That Aristotle Quote (#1)
“For happiness is at once the thing most beautiful, best, and most pleasant.” The above quotation from Aristotle, which as of writing this is displayed on this site’s Home page, has always struck me. It’s one of those things you hear that immediately sticks in your mind, and periodically resurfaces from memory, unbidden, as you…
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Three Types of Reasoning: Cognitive, Emotional, Behavioral
The theory of Logic-Based Consultation (LBC) and Logic-Based Therapy (LBT) makes a distinction between emotional reasoning, behavioral reasoning, and cognitive reasoning. The decisive factor in separating these three is the conclusion. But before going any farther, I just want to make clear that, as a client, (1) You don’t need to know this stuff in…
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The Process of Logic-Based Consultation
Logic-Based Consultation (LBC) typically requires at least two, but not more than six, meetings per specific issue. It depends on the complexity of your life issue, and perhaps on other factors such as how thoroughly you wish to explore it, how many “fallacies” we discover, how interested you are in exploring new perspectives, et cetera.…
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