The Dionysian

Sunday, October 16, 2011

GDP and Happiness

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Our society almost universally holds the following assumption to be true: as the standard of living increases (based on objective measures),...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Value, Competition, and Purpose

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          I want to make a point about value.   Namely, what we value will always be some sort of combination of our intrinsic desires mixed...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Fear of Failure

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                A fear of failure is rarely based on the   actual   negative consequences that may result from failing.    Similar to any ty...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Epicureanism

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Many of life’s difficulties are contained in the seeming contradictory nature of things.  To truly enjoy something, you need to “buy-in” and...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

Thoughts on the New App “Color”

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A new app called “Color” was recently released.  For those of you who don’t know what Color is, here’s a rough summary of how the app works....

Passions as Virtues

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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche spent much of his time studying Ancient Greek culture.  In numerous essays, Nietzsche discussed how the ...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Perspectivism

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Many philosophers have looked at the nature of living and argued that life is nothing but suffering and misery.  These sorts of viewpoints t...
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