Food for Thought
A PHILOSOPHER’S FEAST – CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL, 4 OCTOBER. An ethically sourced feast of food, wine and philosophy with myself and wine philosopher[…]
ReadAuthor: Julian Baggini
Philosophy on a Friday
WIMBLEDON BOOKFEST – 3 OCTOBER. Took part in a discussion with David Edmonds chaired by Dr Marie Adams.
ReadThe Shrink & The Sage meet Ranulph Fiennes
Fiennes’s inner psyche appears to be not so much a closed book as a blank page. It’s not that Fiennes, now 70, isn’t a charming and engaging conversationalist. It’s just that he doesn’t appear to do introspection and says he’s bad at “hypotheses or inward-looking philosophy”. Ask him a question that invites him to look inwards, and he answers it with a story about something he has done. It is as though for him Hannah Arendt’s distinction between the active and contemplative life is absolute.
ReadShould we cultivate resilience?
If you find yourself drawing on your resilience a lot, then you ought to ask yourself why you keep hitting the floor.
ReadShould we stop moaning?
Little existential sighs only become problematic when they become too loud or too long. What we call moaning is often merely an excess of natural, healthy grumbling.
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