Forgetting to Remember Old Lessons Hard-Won, or: Read Emerson Now
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Study, circa 1888. Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Nature and Other Essay…
Practising Stoic Philosophy
Practising Stoic Philosophy at the Gunning Library. 7th October 2017. Photo by Leslie Bush. After reading on Trove abou…
I think, therefore, I am... Hey, what's that shadow?
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre meet Ernesto Che Guevara in Cuba, 1960. Photo: Public Domain . Irrational Man: …
Pedagogical Evolution: A Personal Journey
It was more than one hundred years later before corporal punishment was banned in Queensland state schools. Cartoon: Wi…
Developing My Research Philosophy Part 4: Le Flâneur Politique
Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project I believe that philosophy is the proper starting place for any human endeavour. W…
Matthew Sharpe: Stoicism 5.0: The unlikely 21st century reboot of an ancient philosophy
Jacques-Louis David's "La morte di Seneca" (1773). Source: Wikimedia . From Cynicism to Stoicism No one e…
Book Notes: "Teach Yourself Stoicism and the Art of Happiness" by Donald J. Robertson
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière's "The Death of Cato of Utica" (1795). Source: Wikimedia . Teach Yourself Stoi…
Book Notes: "The Inner Life" by Thomas à Kempis
Thomas a Kempis on Mount Agnes (c. 17th Century) via Wikimedia . The Inner Life by Thomas à Kempis My rating: 3 of 5 s…
Book Notes: "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus My rating: 3 of 5 stars Camus gives words and thoughts and theories and literary …
Book Notes: "A Summary of Stoic Philosophy: Zeno of Citium in Diogenes Laertius Book Seven" by Charles Duke Yonge and Keith Seddon
A Summary of Stoic Philosophy: Zeno of Citium in Diogenes Laertius Book Seven by Charles Duke Yonge My rating: 3 of 5 …
"Into the Wild" but not Out of the Misery, or: First World Problems are simply history repeating...
The old Fairbanks City bus on The Stampede Trail, Alaska, where Christopher McCandless starved to death in 1992. A rece…
The Inner Civil War of Right and Wrong, Life and Death, and Being and Time, or: How I pine for the me who knew everything
Cypher in The Matrix : "Ignorance is bliss". I am constantly annoyed by the pro-science Atheists who think th…