Thursday, June 25, 2020

Dance Me to the End of Love - Leonard Cohen

 





Dance Me to the End of Love - Leonard Cohen



https://youtu.be/zaIouQ-I07s




Just a closer walk with thee - Patsy Cline And Willie Nelson







Just a closer walk with thee - Patsy Cline And Willie Nelson





https://youtu.be/OOKaircCiGI






Wynton Marsalis Eric Clapton Just A Closer Walk With Thee

 



Wynton Marsalis  Eric Clapton   Just A Closer Walk With Thee





https://youtu.be/q5krFNUMQHI






Trouble of the World

 





Trouble of the World



https://youtu.be/-BXigKjIrIc










Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

 







Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose





https://youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ








Safe Psychedelic Trip





Remember that psychedelic substances are illegal in most jurisdictions.
If you have physical or mental health issues, speak to a sympathetic doctor before experimenting with psychedelics. People with a history of psychosis or bipolar disorder are usually not allowed to participate in psychedelic research trials because they face heightened risks.
Ensure you are in a physically safe, controlled environment. Always start with a low dose.
Don’t take psychedelic drugs on your own. Find an experienced guide or therapist whom you trust.
Use word of mouth at psychedelic societies and elsewhere to source psychedelic substances safely, and use online testing kits to ensure their quality. Alternatively, for greater safety, consider signing up to a research trial conducted at a university.
Remember the importance of set and setting. Work with a guide who will help you prepare for your psychedelic journey, sit with you during the experience, and conduct integration with you for several weeks or months afterwards.

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The main safety challenges confronting anyone who wishes to experiment with psychedelics stem from their illegality, meaning that there is no formal regulation of the training of psychedelic guides, nor is there a reliable way to source the drugs safely. Many researchers in the field, including Sessa, have been campaigning for drug-law reforms for decades. ‘The current situation is a total practical folly and extremely dangerous, utterly immoral and totally unpoliceable,’ he says. ‘It’s putting our heads in the sand and not addressing the fact that many people will take these drugs. It’s like the prohibition era in the States but on a much larger scale. The only way to control potentially dangerous drugs is through appropriate regulation. Imagine if scuba diving were outlawed – people would still do it, but now there were would be poor training, poor equipment and loads of people dying.’

Until the laws are changed, and outside of a research environment, the best route to a safe experience lies in finding a suitably trustworthy and experienced guide – someone who is vouched for by others. And it’s key that this guide will work with you before and after your psychedelic journey.

‘There’s lots of underground therapists in this country and elsewhere, these so-called healer/shaman/guru-type people who will quite happily take you down to Totnes and take four grand off you and take you into their yurt and give you a bag of mushrooms, but they won’t give you the other stuff; they won’t do the preparation and they won’t do the integration, so people are left hanging high and dry,’ says Sessa. ‘I always say to people who’ve found a so-called shaman or healer: “Ask this guy if he will see you for three weeks before and three weeks afterwards, and I bet he won’t.” That’s the bit that’s missing, not only from recreational use, but also from underground use.’

Until the laws change, signing up to a research trial is probably the least risky way to experience a psychedelic trip. These are being conducted at various research institutions around the world, principally: the University of Bristol, Imperial College London, Newcastle University and Manchester University in the UK; and at Johns Hopkins University in the US.

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Erowid is a US-based organisation that provides ‘reliable, nonjudgmental information about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related issues’.

Bluelight is an ‘international, online, harm-reduction community committed to reducing the harms associated with drug use’.

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a US-based ‘non-profit research and educational organisation that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana’.

DanceSafe is a public health organisation, founded in California, that provides ‘a nonjudgmental perspective to help support people who use drugs in making informed decisions about their health and safety’.

PsychonautWiki is a ‘community-driven online encyclopaedia that aims to document the field of psychonautics in a comprehensive, scientifically grounded manner’.

The Psychedelic Renaissance (2nd ed, 2017) by Ben Sessa is an excellent introductory textbook that describes the cultural history of psychedelics, and is the most up-to-date review of contemporary work in the field.

Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth (2019) by Françoise Bourzat with Kristina Hunter is a ‘comprehensive guide to the safe and ethical application of expanded states of consciousness for therapists, healing practitioners, and sincere explorers’.

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (2018) by Michael Pollan is a ‘brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs ­– and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences’.
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The recreational use of LSD, MDMA, DMT, psilocybin and similar substances is currently illegal in most jurisdictions around the world.

Information and support for those affected by substance abuse can be found at the BBC’s addiction page.


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STORIES AND LITERATURE

IDEA

Selfish, grumpy and unkind? That’s my kind of woman

by Ellena Savage



MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION

IDEA

It’s time to hear what adolescents think of mindfulness in schools

by Elena Hailwood, William Wannyn & Suparna Choudhury



POETRY


Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1959) (Full Album)

 





Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1959) (Full Album)



Bass – Ray Brown

Drums – Alvin Stoller

Guitar – Herb Ellis

Piano – Oscar Peterson

Saxophone (Tenor) – Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins



This Session was recorded in Hollywood, October 16, 1957.



Produced By  – Norman Granz







A1 Blues For Yolande  0:00

A2 It Never Entered My Mind  6:48

A3 La Rosita  12:39

B1 You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To  17:45

B2 Prisoner Of Love  22:05

B3 Tangerine  26:22

B4 Shine On Harvest Moon  31:46





https://youtu.be/pxAMrrWQEnc






Self - Regulation as Limited Resource


Strength Model of Self-Regulation as Limited Resource

R.F. Baumeister, K.D. Vohs, in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2016

4.2 Final Remarks

Folk wisdom has long invoked the notion of willpower as a key ingredient for successful self-control and self-discipline, suggesting that energy is consumed in such acts of volition. Psychological theory dispensed with energy models for decades. Skepticism and even hostility toward explaining self-regulation in energy terms are to be expected. Yet the alternative versions generally have large conceptual gaps that cannot be filled without subtly reintroducing the idea of depleted energy resources, or at least resources of some sort. The traditional folk notion of willpower as a limited supply of energy that fuels effort and virtue has proven surprisingly durable, and if updated with new findings, it still forms the basis for a promising scientific account of human volition.



 
Wisdom Sayings and Quotes

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ...

Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own. ...

Justice is truth in action. ...

A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners. ...

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever.

The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.      
Tibetan (on wisdom)

When our imperfect judgments are aggregated in the right way, our collective intelligence is often excellent.     
James Surowiecki

The goal of human nature, of any nature is blessedness. If we do not reach this goal, it is a sign that we are headed in the wrong direction.     


He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.      
Friedrich Nietzsche

Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.      
unknown


Lost time is never found again.      
Benjamin Franklin

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.     
Henri Frederic Amiel

If you cannot do great things , 
    Do small things in a great way.

The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
Russian Proverb


The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy

One should speak little with others and much with oneself.      
Danish (on the conduct of life)


When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.      
Chinese (on wisdom)


The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.     
Russian Proverb


The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.  
Leo Tolstoy


The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.     
Oliver Wendell Holmes


Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your life like you will die the next day.     - unknown


Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.     Cervantes


Desires are brought to live depending on one’s wisdom. Wisdom gives direction to desires.     
Takuan Soho


Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.      
William Wordsworth


A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.      
Lord John Russell

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.      
Korean (on common sense)

Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.      
French (on thrift)


He that respects himself is safe from others.      
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


He who flees at the right time can fight again.      
Marcus Trentius Varro

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.     
Abraham Lincoln


Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).     
Albert Einstein


 Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.     
Albert Einstein


The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.     
Anthony Douglas Williams
 
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.     
Aristotle


The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.     
Aristotle


The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve waste time on.     
Anonymous


Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom say another.     
Charles Dickens


The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve waste time on.     
Anonymous


Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom say another.     
Charles Dickens


Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.     
Colette

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.     
Confucius


Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.     
Debbie Ford


It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.     
Edmund Burke


Wisdom is the daughter of experience.     
Edward Hersey Richards


It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.     
Elbert Hubbard


Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.     
Eleanor Roosevelt


 Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.     
Fran Lebowitz


A loving heart is the truest wisdom.     
Francis Bacon


The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.     
Friedrich Nietzsche

 Patience is the companion of wisdom.     
George Bernard Shaw

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.     
Henry David Thoreau


Patience is the companion of wisdom.     
George Bernard Shaw


We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.     
Henry David Thoreau


Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.     
Holly Near

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.     
Horace


Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.     
Immanuel Kant


Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.     
Isaac Asimov


 It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.     
Isaac Asimov


No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.     
Ivan Panin


Any fool can know. The point is to understand.     
Jess C. Scott


The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.     
Jimi Hendrix

Think before you speak. Read before you think.     
Langston Hughes

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.     
Leonardo da Vinci


The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.   M. H. McKee

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.     
Manly P. Hall


By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.     
Mark Twain

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.     
Martin Luther King Jr.


Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.     
Oliver Wendell Holmes


Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.     
Rumi



Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.     
Socrates

 
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.     
Sophocles


Turn your wounds into wisdom.     
St. Augustine


 Let your actions demonstrate your wisdom.     
Truman Capote



Wisdom is more precious than jewels, nothing else is so worthy of desire.     
unknown

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.     
William Shakespeare


A wise owl sat on an oak, the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard. Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?     
Zen Proverb

 
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Love and death together, the two methods according to Charles Darwin that life uses to evolve. Salvador Dali knew what he was doing.



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"Devote the rest of your life to making progress...the chance for progress, to keep or lose, turns on the events of a single day." - Epictetus







Trump bragged about acing this exam in 2018



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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.    
Henri Frederic Amiel 





Strategy for preventing Covid 19

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Adding to Japan’s 3 C’s strategy of preventing #COVID19 spread with 3 W’s: 1. Wear a mask. 2. Watch your distance. 3. Wash your hands.
1:27 PM · Jun 20, 2020







Sunday, June 14, 2020

Mistakes become Lessons / data (Templeton)

 



“An investor who has all the answers doesn’t even understand all the questions.” John Templeton

. “The wise investor recognizes that success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.” John Templeton 


“Forgive yourself for your errors. Don’t become discouraged, and certainly don’t try to recoup your losses by taking bigger risks. Instead, turn each mistake into a learning experience. Determine exactly what went wrong and how you can avoid the same mistake in the future.” John Templeton

“Defer pleasure until the job is done.” John Templeton


“Even if we can identify an unchanging handful of success principles, we cannot apply these rules to an unchanging universe of investments—or an unchanging economic and political environment. Everything is in a constant state of change…” John Templeton

“If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.” John Templeton

"If you don’t use your muscles, they get weak. If you don’t use your mind it begins to fail.” John Templeton

“I wouldn’t call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.”

“Learn from your mistakes.”

“Forgive yourself for your errors. Don’t become discouraged, and certainly don’t try to recoup your losses by taking bigger risks. Instead, turn each mistake into a learning experience. Determine exactly what went wrong and how you can avoid the same mistake in the future.” John Templeton


“The big difference between those who are successful and those who are not is that successful people learn from their mistakes and the mistakes of others.” John Templeton

“If you begin with a prayer, you can think more clearly and make fewer mistakes.” John Templeton








How boredom can motivate people to pursue their ambitions and change their lives















Sunday, May 3, 2020

Times Square, New York City, 1971



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German photographer Hans Joachim Jacobi

Times Square, New York City, 1971



Perfect The Moment



 



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The alien-looking banded horned treefrog
(Hemiphractus fasciatus) from South America.
via WWF




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Art is a line around your thoughts. (Gustav Klimt) -
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Gustav Klimt "The Virgin 1913"-
10:26 PM · May 1, 2020




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But don't abandon it forever, artists. Take a break and recharge when you need to, but know your art is always there waiting for you! #artistsnetwork #leonardo #davinci #tmnt



The scientist asks “what happens, and when and where will it happen?”. The engineer asks “how does it happen?”. The philosopher asks “why does it happen?” The enlightened one asks “who is asking?”.



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"Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure." Maya Angelou 



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Rebecca Campbell.



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Kiyoshi Saito ~ "The Eye (13)", 1976









Friday, May 1, 2020

Amongst White Clouds - Documentary - 2005 - Zen





  


 Amongst White Clouds - Documentary - 2005 - Zen

Director: Edward A. Burger



 "With both humor and compassion, these inspiring and warm-hearted characters challenge us to join them in an exploration of our own suffering and enlightenment in this modern world." (Excerpt from www.amongstclouds.com)

 Zhongnan Mountains 

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

The Fish Marianne Moore - 1887-1972


The Fish
Marianne Moore - 1887-1972






wade
through black jade.
       Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps
       adjusting the ash-heaps;
              opening and shutting itself like

an
injured fan.
       The barnacles which encrust the side
       of the wave, cannot hide
              there for the submerged shafts of the

sun,
split like spun
       glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness
       into the crevices—
              in and out, illuminating

the
turquoise sea
       of bodies. The water drives a wedge
       of iron through the iron edge
              of the cliff; whereupon the stars,

pink
rice-grains, ink-
       bespattered jelly fish, crabs like green
       lilies, and submarine
              toadstools, slide each on the other.

All
external
       marks of abuse are present on this
       defiant edifice—
              all the physical features of

ac-
cident—lack
       of cornice, dynamite grooves, burns, and
       hatchet strokes, these things stand
              out on it; the chasm-side is

dead.
Repeated
       evidence has proved that it can live
       on what can not revive
              its youth. The sea grows old in it.

This poem is in the public domain.





Source:
https://poets.org/poem/fish-1






Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Monday, April 27, 2020

Bonsai

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“The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing.”

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. - Benjamin Franklin



Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Pandemic Panic

  

 One person was pictured with a makeshift plastic bottle for a mask on the underground




 This family wrapped themselves up with plastic sheeting



 Shoppers were also spotted with different forms of protection




 Another was seen wearing their own version of a gas mask

 One woman was seen with a plastic bottle on her head



 A mother and child were spotted with plastic bottles on their head




Jun Fujita: American Visionary







Jun Fujita: American Visionary

by Newberry Library
Jun Fujita: American Visionary, copresented by the Newberry Library and the Poetry Foundation, focuses on the extraordinary accomplishments of poet and photojournalist Jun Fujita. This exhibition presents an expanded version of Jun Fujita: Oblivion, first mounted at the Poetry Foundation in 2017, and explores Fujita’s poetry, photojournalism, landscape photography, and uncommon life and love.
Born outside of Hiroshima in 1888, Fujita came to Chicago in 1909, becoming the first Japanese American photojournalist. As an English-language tanka poet, he published regularly in Poetry during the 1920s; as a photographer, he captured many of the most infamous moments in Chicago history, including the Eastland Disaster, the 1919 race riots, and the St. Valentine’s Day massacre.
Throughout his work, Fujita put forward a vision of what “American” can mean, achieving unprecedented success in his profession despite the hostility, prejudice, and persecution he faced as a Japanese native.

OrganizerNewberry Library

Organizer of Jun Fujita: American Visionary
The Newberry is an independent research library that supports and inspires scholarship, teaching, and learning in the humanities. Our collection—some 1.6 million books, 600,000 maps, and 5 million manuscript pages—is a portal to more than six centuries of human history, from the Middle Ages to the present. We connect people with this history in the Newberry’s reading rooms, program spaces, exhibition galleries, and online digital resources.




 

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Super Squirrel


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Pot Cigarette?





Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 9 (Hartmut Haenchen / Orchestre philharmoni...

   


Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 9 (Hartmut Haenchen / Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France)

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Hartmut Haenchen conducts the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France in the 9th Symphony of Gustav Mahler. Live recording from the concert of march 29th 2018 in the Auditorium of Radio France (Paris).

The life of Gustav Mahler takes a painful turning during his last years. In 1907, meanwhile he loses his young daughter (dead by scarlet fever), he discovers that he is sick of the heart. His last works take dark colors and the 9th Symphony in D Major, dated from 1909, doesn't escape the rule.
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Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 9 (Hartmut Haenchen / Orchestre philharmoni...

   


Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 9 (Hartmut Haenchen / Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France)

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Hartmut Haenchen conducts the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France in the 9th Symphony of Gustav Mahler. Live recording from the concert of march 29th 2018 in the Auditorium of Radio France (Paris).

The life of Gustav Mahler takes a painful turning during his last years. In 1907, meanwhile he loses his young daughter (dead by scarlet fever), he discovers that he is sick of the heart. His last works take dark colors and the 9th Symphony in D Major, dated from 1909, doesn't escape the rule.
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Friday, January 17, 2020

Being a philosopher?




Non-professional actor Yalitza Aparicio’s performance as Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (2018) earned her an Academy Award nomination. Photo courtesy of Netflix

Is there anything especially expert about being a philosopher?


by David Egan

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Outside a university setting, telling people that I’m pursuing a career in philosophy can be a bit of a conversation stopper. More times than I can count, I’ve faced the bemused but well-intentioned question: ‘How is that useful?’ 

I seem like a nice guy, smart, capable – why am I intent on doing something that won’t make me rich and won’t make the world a better place?

The humanities in contrast with the ‘hard’ disciplines of the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), are often disparaged as ‘soft’. You don’t need an advanced degree to read a novel, so why bother?


There’s a similar contrast we could draw between a first class in philosophy and a first class in electrical engineering. 

I lead my students into philosophical questioning by starting with intuitions that they already hold and then applying pressure to those intuitions, asking them to take their reasoning farther than they’d normally take it. 

We all make claims to know things, for instance, and we all recognise that sometimes these claims are justified and sometimes not. 

But outside a philosophy class, we rarely press very hard on the question of what constitutes knowledge and how we might distinguish it from, say, a lucky guess. 

I invite students to press harder on this question by starting with their familiar intuitions about when they are and aren’t licensed to claim to know something. 

By contrast, although I confess I’ve never taken a class in electrical engineering, I’m pretty sure that the course doesn’t begin by teasing out the students’ intuitions about how electrical circuits work.

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein compared language to an ancient city: a centre packed with a maze of streets and squares, with new buildings squeezed in against old ones, which gradually gives way to newer, planned suburbs with an ordered grid of streets and uniform houses. 

We could think of the field of human inquiry similarly. The sciences are like these well-regulated suburbs, rigorously ordered according to precise methodologies, and the humanities are like the chaotic centre, as messy as the human lives that buzz about in it. 

You take a trip out to different suburbs for specific purposes: you want to send a rocket into space, treat an aggressive cancer, or devise a proof for Goldbach’s conjecture. Most of us will never visit these suburbs, and no one will ever get deeply acquainted with all of them. But we all come together in the city centre. 

All human lives feature some deliberation over what matters to us, what we like and dislike and why, what’s meaningful, admirable or despicable, what’s to be hoped for, what’s to be feared. 

When we start asking these questions more deliberately and rigorously, we’re intensifying an activity that’s already familiar.


So how is philosophy useful? 

The response I’ve learned to counter with is that the question being asked is itself a philosophical question. 

One of the things we do in philosophy is precisely to ask what’s worth doing and why. 

For the most part, my questioners have already presupposed a fairly limited set of acceptable answers to the question of what’s worth doing – answers that generally bottom out in the material wellbeing of oneself and others. But those answers, innocuous as they might seem to the speaker, are philosophical answers to a philosophical question.


In other words, we’re all doing philosophy all the time. 

We can’t escape the question of what matters and why: the way we’re living is itself our implicit answer to that question. 

A large part of a philosophical training is to make those implicit answers explicit, and then to examine them rigorously. Philosophical reflection, once you get started in it, can seem endlessly demanding. But if we can’t avoid living philosophically, it seems sensible to learn to do it well.



Link: https://aeon.co/ideas/is-there-anything-especially-expert-about-being-a-philosopher

by David Egan 
-- a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at CUNY Hunter College in New York. 



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