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More day to dawn

by Phil Oliver

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 at jposopher.blogspot.com and delightsprings.blogspot.com, tweeting @osopher.

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Episodes

  1. My Opinion Podcast at Tennessee

    My Opinion Podcast at Tennessee by Phil Oliver

  2. Vin Scully's last game

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

  3. Doomsday

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

  4. The sharp & narrow path

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

  5. Abelard's ultimate tragedy

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

  6. Happiness-the best of the west

    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.”

  7. Hegel & Schopenhauer

    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.

  8. Camus's Myth of Sisyphus

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

  9. Pangloss and meliorism

    A better world has to be possible.

  10. Mill's happiness

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

  11. Lenoir's Happiness 16-18

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

  12. Seneca, Schopenhauer

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

  13. Study Abroad course July 2016-American philosophy, British roots

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

  14. Happiness & the good life

    Haybron's ch8

  15. The sources of happiness

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

  16. I believe in the peripatetic life

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

  17. Happiness is to be "dissolved"

    So said Willa Cather, via Maria Popova.

  18. Opening deja-vu

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

  19. The college game

    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.

  20. Springs 2

    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.

  21. Work and play

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

  22. More day to dawn

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

  23. Sauntering with children

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

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TOPICS IN THIS SHOW

Existential questions James philosophy Mindful writing Morning star metaphor Nature meditation Personal growth Self-awareness Thoreau reflections

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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 at jposopher.blogspot.com and delightsprings.blogspot.com, tweeting @osopher.

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Phil Oliver

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