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Philosophy in the Old and New World

Earlier this week, while I was buying produce at the local farmer's market (laiki agora) in Kifissia, Athens, I stopped by a woman who...

The Soft Power of Being Oneself

It can be very hard to respect oneself when one admires other people who seem to find one lacking precisely because of one's...

What Does Gender Serve?

Among progressives, it is nowadays considered preferable to speak of gender identity as though it represented a primordial fact about...

The Uncertain World of Daydreams

One aspect of myself I’ve always been quite aware of, and often bashful about, is my tendency to lapse into daydreaming. When I am on my...

Eating for philosophical health

Talking about the nutritional content of food has never been as popular as it is today. We live in a world dominated by "nutrition nuts"...

Embracing Who We Unknowingly Are

Admiring other people is something we should be careful about doing. I believe we are not wary enough of it because we assume that our...

What We Do When We Play

When we play, we not only experience our greatest sense of liberation and joy, but also our creative power to make a world almost...

Is Counseling a Model For Relating?

It seems obvious that, as in many professions, one wears a different hat as a counselor than when relating to people in a...

Luminous Love

A fellow philosophical counselor has been mentioning Victor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, to me for a while, so I finally...

The Reality of Dreams

One thing I have been thinking about recently is the relationship of imagination to reality. Is what we imagine – in fantasies, dreams,...

The Gadfly and the Sluggish Horse

When we think about what it means to be “eudaimon,” it helps to keep the example of Socrates in mind. Socrates has been called the first...

Think Steadily as a Roman

“Meditation” is on everyone’s mouths today. I would venture that, throughout the urban and cosmopolitan first world, most non-senior...