The “James’ Formulas” concern the cultivation of willpower and were created by William James, who based these formulas for the cultivation of willpower upon those of mais 555 palavras
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Working on life is hard.
I have been qualming about how my life ought to be and how it currently is. I have fallen, yes fallen in love in a mere 3 weeks. mais 350 palavras
Five Answers on Pragmatism
Susan Haack has just made this available.
pragmatism is best thought of, not as requiring these or those articles of faith, but simply as a broad congeries of philosophical attitudes
Morality
What struck me most about Annie Dillard’s book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, was her discussion on human consciousness, or as Dillard puts it “human self-consciousness”. mais 540 palavras
Human Feelings
Comedy and tragedy are the two fundamental outlooks upon the human condition, while joy and sorrow are the two basic of our feelings. Is it possible that such profound and all-embracing essentials might have a physical location in some particular small corner of our brain? mais 520 palavras
You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete.
- “You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete.” R. Buckminster Fuller
- “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” … mais 199 palavras
