Sublime

They believed that we should not try to find out what the human mind is, as if it were some kind of substance. Instead, we should consider what it does, and how it grasps its experiences.

PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

Though liberalism is wrong to think that our feelings reflect free will, up until today relying on feelings still made good practical sense. For although there was nothing magical or free about our feelings, they were the best method in the universe for deciding what to study, whom to marry, and which party to vote for. And no outside system could

J'ai toujours été fasciné par le fait que William James et Bertrand Russel aient tous deux été d'accord sur cette question cruciale, la non dualité du sujet et de l'objet dans la primauté de la conscience immédiate. Je trouve ça très drôle, parce que si vous pouvez trouver quoi que ce soit sur quoi ils aient été d'accord, ça devait bien venir direc

Indeed, he repeatedly stated that the “social bases of self-respect” were the most important primary goods, since “without [self-respect] nothing may seem worth doing.”

This liberalism relies upon the idea that consciousness is not a thing but an activity; that its elemental constituent is not some soul-like substance but the activity of understanding; that it knows itself and the world only imperfectly, through its reflections on the world and itself; that its freedom is a matter of degree and a function of its u

the brilliant Principles-based psychiatrist William Pettit.

Epicurus’s teaching represents a major step forward from Aristotle in one particular area. Aristotle, as we know, treated human emotions as a shallow clear pool, fully accessible to the trained intellect and amenable to change through rational, dialectical scrutiny. Since the time of Freud, we have known that to be an incomplete image of how we ope