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| Vida Yao on Eros and Anxiety | 19 juil. 2025 | 00:18:48 | |
Today's excerpt comes from a recently published paper, titled Eros and Anxiety, by Professor Vida Yao. The paper explores ideals of rationality, authenticity, and how they interact with transformative experiences – specifically, the experience of falling in love. Yao is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UCLA, and is interested in Ethics and Moral Psychology, specifically the philosophy of emotions and the self. Read it yourself at alifeofthought.com/d15 -- Or join the conversation at community.alifeofthought.com. Yao, Vida. “Eros and Anxiety.” Synthese 202, no. 6 (December 6, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04391-0. | |||
| Wittgenstein on Knowing and Doubting | 18 juil. 2025 | 00:17:57 | |
Today’s excerpt comes from §92-94 of Wittgenstein’s ‘On Certainty.’ In it, Wittgenstein explores the difference between normal, every-day, beliefs – like “the bus is going to get here at 2:30pm” – and beliefs that serve, in one way or another, as backdrops for us, and seem quite obvious: ‘The world has existed for a long time. Read it yourself at alifeofthought.com/d15 -- Or join the conversation at community.alifeofthought.com. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings. 1. ed. HarperPerennial ModernThought. New York: HarperPerennial, 2009, sec. 92-94 | |||
| Thoreau on Walking | 16 juil. 2025 | 00:15:20 | |
Today's excerpt comes from a lecture written by Henry David Thoreau, titled walking. The lecture itself is a sort of walk, meandering and sauntering around. Read it yourself at alifeofthought.com/d15 -- Or join the conversation at community.alifeofthought.com. Citation: Thoreau, Henry David. “Walking.” In Thackeray Newman Ruskin Huxley Thoreau and Others, Deluxe Edition., 393–425. Harvard Classics. P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1938. | |||
| Freud on Slips of the Tongue | 12 juil. 2025 | 00:16:12 | |
Today's Daily 15 is an excursion into one of Freud's first introductory lectures on psychoanalysis. In the lecture, Freud asks whether slips of the tongue, misplacements, or seemingly random forgettings, in fact, have a sense or a meaning or an interpretation. Read it yourself at alifeofthought.com/d15 -- Or join the conversation at community.alifeofthought.com.
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| Sartre On the Nature of Reflective Consciousness | 11 juil. 2025 | 00:16:38 | |
Today's excerpt comes from the introduction of Sartre's masterwork, Being and Nothingness. Sartre discusses the relation of consciousness to itself. Read it yourself at alifeofthought.com/d15 -- Or join the conversation at community.alifeofthought.com. Excerpt from Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology. Translated by Sarah Richmond. First Washington Square Press/Atria paperback edition. New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Washington Square Press/Atria, 2021, pp. 11 - 12. | |||
| Proust on Habit and Memory | 09 juil. 2025 | 00:20:46 | |
Today's excerpt comes from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. In the passage, Marcel discusses the connection between habit, memory, and the process of forgetting and becoming indifferent. Read it yourself at alifeofthought.com/d15 -- Or join the conversation at community.alifeofthought.com. Excerpt from: Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way. Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Modern Library pbk. ed. The Modern Library Classics, v. 1. New York: Modern Library, 2003, pp. 300-301. | |||