Reader beware: rambling post ahead. Hence the music below (Cathart) in case you want to listen to something to spell the time. Listen on Posterous I manage a blog for …
Plants as Persons: The Moral Standing of Plants (via )
I like these efforts to instill a moral philosophy in aspects of the natural world that have traditionally been neglected, or at the very least to understand that these are …
Tree of Life and a Maturity of Learning
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLPe0fHuZsc] I must admit my bias ahead of this post here. I adore Terence Malick. His four films, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Thin Red Line, and the New World are …
Nietzsche, Jason Schwartzman, Mozart and Discord: Teaching philsophy/art online
I have been thinking of the seeming limitations of online learning formats for teaching critical thinking, especially critical thinking as it applied to philsophy or the appreciation of art (as …
Teaching as all-encompassing activity: (a)synchronous and omnipresent
“The next generation is responsible for its own soul; a man of genius is responsible to his peers, not to a studio full of uneducated and undisciplined coxcombs.” T.S. Eliot …
Chuang-Tsu (莊子) and the purpose of words
Chuang-Tsu (4th century BC) The purpose of a fishtrap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is …
W. Somerset Maugham’s words of wisdom
“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? …