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Category: Aristotle

Posted onJune 30, 2022July 2, 2022Aristotle, awareness, beauty, Buddhism, family, happiness, reality, religion, Zen Buddhism

We Are All Philosophers

painting by Neville Herbert-Reynolds By Norris Frederick “I love my life, Dad. “I love your life too, Dad. “I’m just curious about life, not death, I just like thinking about life.” It’s a late May…

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Posted onNovember 14, 2018January 15, 2020alienation, Aristotle, beauty, death, family, friendship, self

Friendship and David McKnight: Homeless, Musician, Journalist, Statesman, Friend

David McKnight at the Durham Farmer’s Market, Sept. 2014.  Photo by Bill Pope. By Dr. Norris Frederick Third and Final Part (part one is here and part two here)  “In poverty, too, as in all…

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Posted onSeptember 14, 2018January 15, 2020alienation, anxiety, Aristotle, beauty, friendship, self

What Else Matters? Friendship and David McKnight

By Dr. Norris Frederick Part Two In Part One (which you can read here), I wrote about my friendship with David McKnight, beginning in the mid-60’s with high school, where he was voted “Most Likely…

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Posted onJuly 25, 2018August 17, 2020anxiety, Aristotle, friendship, self

What Else Matters? Friendship

by Dr. Norris Frederick “No one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all the other good things.” –  Aristotle[1] David McKnight 1966 high school yearbook Aristotle is right: who would want…

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Posted onMay 14, 2018August 24, 2020Aristotle, pleasure, reality, worldview

What Else Matters? Reality.

By Dr. Norris Frederick First in a series Thanks to those of you who responded to my most recent post about an assignment from my “Philosophy for Life” course, based on Nozick’s thought-experiment, “The Experience…

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