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Reflections in the spirit of Henry Thoreau ("Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." ) and William James ("the really vital question for us all is, What is this world going to be? What is life eventually to make of itself?"). Blogging a…

Phil Oliver


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    My Opinion Podcast at Tennessee

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    My Opinion Podcast at Tennessee by Phil Oliver

    Vin Scully's last game

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2016 0:39


    A snippet of Vin Scully's last broadcast, in San Francisco 10.2.16.

    Doomsday

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2016 1:57


    "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year,” and get on with it."

    The sharp & narrow path

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2016 2:38


    Ockham's razor, Somerset Maugham, William James, and "salvation"

    Abelard's ultimate tragedy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2016 5:54


    There's an intellectual form of self-neutering that's worse, in some ways, than the tragedy of Abelard and Heloise.

    Happiness-the best of the west

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2016 4:20


    Our fourth and final Lifelong Learner's Happiness class at MTSU will glean the wisdom of Montaigne, Hume, James, Russell, Csikszentmihalyi, and Jennifer Michael Hecht. "Hang a sign that says HOME on a tree and you're done." And, Dr. Seuss: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

    Hegel & Schopenhauer

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 6:08


    In search of Reality itself, we might do better to focus on lower-case realities like a well-pitched softball game or a World Series championship.

    Camus's Myth of Sisyphus

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2015 9:04


    "The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

    Pangloss and meliorism

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2015 12:00


    A better world has to be possible.

    Mill's happiness

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2015 13:26


    J.S. Mill recovered from overzealous homeschooling with the aid of music and poetry.

    Lenoir's Happiness 16-18

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2015 8:21


    Individual & collective happiness; desire, boredom, loving life as it is.

    Seneca, Schopenhauer

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2015 9:00


    Seneca, Stoics, Schopenhauer - if your "deeper nature" isn't happy enough, can you change it?

    Study Abroad course July 2016-American philosophy, British roots

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2015 5:16


    Come on along! Details at delightsprings.blogspot.com.

    Happiness & the good life

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2015 12:04


    Haybron's ch8

    The sources of happiness

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2015 8:41


    From Daniel Haybron's "Very Short Inroduction" ch5.

    I believe in the peripatetic life

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2015 7:12


    Looking at "This I Believe," and the conviction of some of us that the best philosophy comes from "feet on the ground."

    Happiness is to be "dissolved"

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2015 2:59


    So said Willa Cather, via Maria Popova.

    Opening deja-vu

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2015 13:32


    Looking back at last year's Opening Day of the academic season, as this year's approaches.

    The college game

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2015 5:29


    In anticipation of a new academic year, reflections on why and how we play this college game and a tip to take the time YOU need to get what college can give you.

    Springs 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2015 10:36


    2d installment of the Springs project, a slow-read recording of "William James's 'Springs of Delight'-the Return to Life" (Vanderbilt Press, 2001), read by author Phil Oliver.

    Work and play

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2015 11:10


    Nothing should be more important to a young person than finding meaningful work.

    More day to dawn

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2015 6:00


    We are a young species, the real world awaits our discovery, new horizons beckon.

    Sauntering with children

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 6:31


    Wordsworth, Thoreau, and "the simple pleasures of a stroll"-close as we'll come to immortality.

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