A moral philosophy of mobility
Michael GallagherReader 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
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 all…
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?…