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Posted onMarch 5, 2021March 6, 2021freedom, habit, happiness, James, reality, self, transformation

Optimist or Pessimist?

Photo by John Bakator on Unsplash by Dr. Norris Frederick  What a Winter What a hard winter it’s been. In the winter of 1804-05, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their expedition of some thirty men…

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Posted onMay 5, 2020May 16, 2020Epictetus, reality, Stoicism, transformation

Philosophy for the Pandemic: Stoicism

“Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not…

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Posted onDecember 7, 2019February 20, 2020death, family, friendship, reality

David McKnight: What Lives On

by Dr. Norris Frederick Our friend David McKnight died almost three years ago, but he is not forgotten. A year ago I concluded a three-part series on David and his journey from being voted “Most…

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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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Posted onMarch 7, 2018August 24, 2020happiness, pleasure, reality

The Experience Machine

By Dr. Norris Frederick This semester I’m teaching my course “Philosophy for Life:  What do Great Philosophers and Current Science Have to Say about True Happiness and a Good Life?” [i] The course raises and…

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Posted onJuly 21, 2017August 17, 2020death, Epicurus, reality

Death: Out of Sight, or Front and Center?

By Dr. Norris Frederick Second in a series My thanks to you for the many thoughtful responses, both on my website and on Facebook, about my first post on death.  A couple of you wrote…

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