Ethics And The Full Breasted Richness Of Life

American philosophers around the turn of the twentieth century offer a treasure of principles that can usefully guide us to a fuller life. In a personal letter to philosopher Josiah Royce, the pragmatic philosopher Charles Pierce admitted that while his logic provided security by avoiding error, it lacked the quality of "uberty," or being life-giving. Royce developed a view that would lead us to practice the good of harmony over chaotic disharmony. An important neglected gem in our undertaking of an ethical life is the importance of loyalty to a cause which goes beyond our narrow egos. Understanding this and reaching for a higher reference point of having "loyalty to loyalties," respecting the diversity of causes that people have, offers a working solution for the many thorny moral problems which have polarized society. Read this book if you want to learn how to make choices for the good in varied aspects of your lives, from friendship to business dealings. The end goal, which this portrayal of ethics elaborate, is to obtain personhood, which enables you to live a fuller life and to enable others to do the same.

American philosophers around the turn of the twentieth century offer a treasure of principles that can usefully guide our life. In a personal letter to philosopher Josiah Royce, the pragmatic philosopher Charles S. Pierce admitted that while his logic provided security by avoiding error, it lacked the quality of "uberty," or being life-giving. Royce developed a view that would lead us to do something more, to practice the good of harmony over chaotic disharmony. Read this book if you want to learn how ethics can direct you to live a fuller life and to enable others to do the same.

This work offers a guide that sums up years of dream interpretation. We are given both general guidelines on how to approach our dreams and specific tools to understand their symbolic significance. Each of these is illustrated by the author's own dream life. Not only will we discover how to find meaning in dreams, but we will come to see the value of their beauty and mystery. The net result is that we will become comfortable handling the dream world, and be led to awareness and actions that will help fulfill our lives. This fulfillment is in harmony with the personalized and universal aspiration that the dream world seeks to grant us.

This work invites us to enter the world of mementos, as to their significance and hidden meaning. By way of example, the author describes ten mementos from his own desk. His "first reflections" describe the object and the immediate story behind them. In his "second reflections," the author ventures into the philosophic and metaphysical domains to consider each memento's meaning. The ordinary world of mementos may not give us much pause during the course of the day. Yet they are in front of us and telling us something important about ourselves and our lives You are invited to take a journey into this world of mimentos, so you may begin to explore the meaning of yours, and discover what is being said to you.

The stories in this work describe depth psychological experiences of persons who often ended up in psychiatric hospitals. Beyond suffering and pain, these person's stories show a spirit and courage which led them to become advocates or artists. Many of the authors are well known and part of a national and international movement, advocating for rights of those in the psychiatric system. This work also includes a handful of professionals who may not have been hospitalized, but have found effective methods to help those in distress. Read this work if you want to see what happens in intense psychological experiences, and how the path to healing has been discovered.

his work offers an alternative paradigm for viewing life and its dynamic capacity for change. Rather than focusing on the end result of evolution with concepts such as resilience and fitness, it focuses on the actual process of change, in which life goes through a fragile period. Using plain-spoken language and based on an earlier scholarly work, it examines six biological domains which exhibit fragility and make for evolutionary novelty. They are: 1) the organism's dynamic genome, which exhibits a remarkable fluidity; 2) Symbiosis, involving the creative merger of two types of organisms; 3) Sexuality, in which the merger of sexes produces unique offspring; 4) Multicellularity, which makes for most of earth's macroscopic life; 5) Development, change resulting from the fragile period of immaturity of organisms; 6) The principle of the "head", a holistic/controlling dimension of the organism which is inherently fragile and dynamic; 7) The social dimension with the fragility of cooperative and competitive interactions, and; 8) ecological dimension with its interwoven, delicate web of connections. To this we add a "cumulative dimension" which embraces a spirituality of biology. Teaching our youth and having the public become aware of such a model which focuses on the fragility and sacrificial dimension of dynamic change, would serve to enhance our personal lives and work to increase the chances for the earth and humanity's survival.

This work sums up a lifetime of teaching and living a philosophy that seeks wisdom, creativity, and beauty. Drawing upon poems, paintings, and examples from sports and fitness, the author invites us to see an ever-expanding and unexpected connectivity between things. A heightened awareness of love and friendship are also explored. You are invited on a journey with a challenge to delve into essential questions that can guide our lives.

Introduces the spiritual ideas of three major American philosophers.