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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 onJanuary 2, 2018August 24, 2020awareness, transformation

The New Year: The Journey’s All the Time

By Dr. Norris Frederick I’ve been traveling down interstates 77 and 81 for about 3 hours, and the roar of trucks going 75 mph is getting to me.  I’m on the way to the Virginia…

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Posted onSeptember 8, 2017January 16, 2022anxiety, death, James, religion, worldview

Healthy-Mindedness and the Sick Soul

By Dr. Norris Frederick Third and final in a series on death The recent solar eclipse was almost total here in Charlotte, and a large number of people gathered on the Queens University campus to…

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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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Posted onJune 9, 2017August 17, 2020death, Epicurus, existentialism, Stoicism

Death: Many Questions

By Dr. Norris Frederick There’s been way too much death in my world in the last year:  four nearby neighbors, three cousins, two close high school friends, and one Robert Pirsig, the author of Zen…

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Posted onDecember 20, 2016September 20, 2022James, pluralism, religion

Still Teaching After All These Years

by Dr. Norris Frederick The fall semester – finally – has come to an end.  And even though I don’t have a real job – like welding, for example – I’m exhausted, just as I…

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Posted onNovember 2, 2016August 17, 2020beauty, consumerism, death, Epicurus, happiness, worldview

Philosophy Unlimited: Intelligent Pleasure

by Dr. Norris Frederick One of the joys of travel to another country is the discovery of new landscapes, new customs and cultures, and new people.  We find some ways in which the culture and…

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Posted onOctober 5, 2016August 24, 2020consumerism, existentialism, Kierkegaard, religion

Philosophy and Hope, in a Jar

by Dr. Norris Frederick Recently I was browsing the internet, looking at philosophy websites.  I came across one with a prime domain name:  philosophy.com.  I wondered what philosophers and topics were covered there.  Plato?  Sartre? …

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Posted onAugust 5, 2016August 17, 2020anxiety, death, existentialism, family

Thrown-ness: Understanding an experience of disruption

by Dr. Norris Frederick Philosophy offers us new ways of seeing the world and living in the world, thus helping us live and enriching our consciousness.  At first these new insights create a rupture in…

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