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Posted onJanuary 11, 2023January 14, 2023freedom, habit, happiness, James, reality, self, transformation

Facing the New Year: Optimist or Pessimist?

by Dr. Norris Frederick  As you think about the coming year, or your life in general, are you an optimist or a pessimist?  Is it better to be one rather than the other?   Or…

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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 onFebruary 12, 2022February 12, 2022reality, transformation, wisdom

“I Don’t Know”

Photo by Marek Szturc on Unsplash by Dr. Norris Frederick Knowledge is Power “Knowledge is power.”  We’ve heard that many times, and the statement carries a good deal of truth.  To know through the scientific…

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Posted onSeptember 1, 2021October 14, 2022family, reality, self

Who Are You? Questions about the Self

By Dr. Norris Frederick Have you ever wondered who you are? Have you had the experience, like the ones I’ve recently had, of looking at old photos of yourself or reading old letters from yourself…

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Posted onMay 15, 2021May 20, 2021awareness, death, happiness, reality, self, transformation, wisdom

A Wise Woman and Bottle Trees

by Dr. Norris Frederick Bottle Trees We took a trip to visit our friend Flo recently.  She still lives independently, at age ninety-four, in her house, with the help of a community of friends and…

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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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