Eudaimonia & Wellbeing
The purpose of moral principles, or more particularly moral virtues , is to guide us towards our telos . Once we lose the crucial concepts of character and potential, we are left with a morality consisting of abstract rules, or an acceptance of āhuman natureā as it is, or judgements about particular actions removed from their proper context. As... See more
Practice and Virtue
Poetry as religion
podcasts.apple.comYou canāt wait until everyone understands you and gives you their permission and blessing to go live your life how you want. You donāt need to feel guilty about moving on, letting go, losing their dumb status games, and going after your own life goals. It is ok if youāre not properly calibrated to humanity and meet some people who try to take... See more
Patricia Mou ⢠[non-paywalled issue] The Rabbit Hole š³š issue no.34
A large percentage of peopleās problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You donāt know what you want to spend your time on; you donāt know what kind of person you really get along with; you donāt know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you donāt know what you value in a city; you donāt know how... See more
Ava ⢠Why You Should Write More
I felt an urgent demand in the blood. I could hear its call. Its whistling disturbed me by day and its howl woke me in the night. I heard the drum of the sun. Every path was a calling cadence, the flight of every bird a beckoning, the color of ice an invitation: come. The forest was a fiddler, wickedly good, eyes intense and shining with a fast... See more
This is what Camus meant when he said that "what gives value to travel is fear" -- disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits behind which we hide. And that is why many of us travel not in search of answers, but of better questions. I, like many people, tend to ask questions of the places I visit, and relish... See more
Instead of a commitment to "winning" other people's games, I felt a commitment to design a life that I deeply enjoy inhabiting 3. I saw how my ambition can be unleashed not just in work but as a husband, father, friend, gardener, writer, citizen, and whatever other components now make up my fluid and evolving identity. It's not that I didn't... See more