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Individual Excellence: Part I-B-3: Grouped People
This blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the next passage from Grouped People, the first of four sections. PART I-B: Grouped People Groups Coerce If the role above is honoured and met, to a large degree, parents have […]
Individual Excellence: Part I-B-2: Grouped People
This blog is one of a chain from an in-process book entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the next passage from Grouped People, the first of four sections. PART I-B-2: Grouped People What all of these definitions and descriptions show are values. Values were cited by Heraclitus, Aristotle, […]
Individual Excellence: Part I-B: Grouped People
This blog is one of a chain from the current writing of a non-fiction book tentatively entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is the beginning of the next major section of the book. PART I-B: Grouped People One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. —English Proverb, Wordsmith, Quote of […]
Emotional Reasoning vs. Evidence-based Reasoning from Individual Excellence: Part 1-xi: Soul
This blog is one of a chain constituting the ongoing writing of a manuscript for a non-fiction book tentatively entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is a continuation of last week’s entry. Just prior to moving forward in time, to 21st century research, Maslow requires amplification. That amplification is necessary […]
Individual Excellence: Part 1-x: Soul
This blog is one of a chain constituting the ongoing writing of a manuscript for a non-fiction book tentatively entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is a continuation of last week’s entry. Thinkers cited as foundational to existentialism are Socrates, Aristotle, and Kierkegaard all of whom were united by a […]
Individual Excellence: Part 1-ix: Soul
This blog is one of a chain constituting the ongoing writing of a manuscript for a non-fiction book tentatively entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is a continuation of last week’s entry. Whereas Sigmund Freud was a leader in what is known as the first wave of psychotherapy, Carl Rogers […]
Individual Excellence: Part 1-viii: Soul
As readers of this blog know, I encourage questions, doubts, and correspondence as my intent is to be as clear and consistent as possible. A kind, thoughtful reader sent a detailed email seeking clarification on three issues. This blog consists of those clarifications. The issues of concern are the meanings of soul, existential phenomenology, and […]
Individual Excellence: Part 1-vii: Soul
This blog is one of a chain constituting the ongoing writing of a manuscript for a non-fiction book tentatively entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is a continuation of last week’s entry. To summarize, through the examination of selected concepts from Heraclitus, Aristotle, and the Stoics (e.g., Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, […]
Individual Excellence: Part 1-vi: Soul
This blog is one of a chain constituting the ongoing writing of a manuscript for a non-fiction book tentatively entitled, Individual Excellence: The 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is a continuation of last week’s entry, repeating only last week’s final paragraph, immediately below. The third line of the Serenity Prayer brings some tonic […]
Individual Excellence: Part 1-v: Soul
This blog is one of a chain constituting the ongoing writing of a manuscript for a non-fiction book tentatively entitled, Individual Excellence: the 4Ps of a Well-Spirited Life. What follows is a continuation of last week’s entry, repeating only last week’s final paragraph and the Serenity Prayer, both immediately below. G-d, grant me the serenity […]