Freedom and Flourishing

  Everyone knows that resilience is important in coping with misfortune. However, it may be more important than I had thought. My attentio...

  The accompanying graphic suggests that it does. It is from Michael A Bishop’s book, The Good Life : Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology...

  I have previously written on this blog about the relationship between nature connectedness and happiness. In one essay , written in 2015, ...

  One of the reasons why Friedrich Hayek’s vision of spontaneous order is more attractive than collectivist alternatives is because it offer...

  Some readers will be wondering what the question means. What is this daimon? How does it relate to eudaimonia? How can you identify your d...

  I have read a great deal of the fiction written by Jean Paul Sartre, but my knowledge of his philosophical works is second-hand. I read Na...

  In my discussion of Steven Pinker’s book, Rationality, I referred to his observation that people tend to have a reality mindset in the wo...

Vipassana is an ancient form of meditation based on practice of equanimity in observation of physical sensations and thoughts. As people who...

  The kid in the photo believed that the material world is an illusion. Those beliefs about the nature of reality probably led him to be som...