HopeinThe Good Life: Spring 2024“Why Work?”Growing up, my dad always told me “Find something you love because you will have to do it for the rest of your life.” I feel like that…Apr 185Apr 185
HopeinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Week 11Love is a very complex concept. It is hard to define, mostly because it means something different to each and every one of us. This can be…Mar 283Mar 283
HopeinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Week 9Ralph Waldo Emerson, writes about being a nonconformist and about how a person’s skills and intelligence should be utilized in order to…Mar 7Mar 7
HopeinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Finding A ReasonThe three facets of mass neurotic syndrome–depression, aggression, and addiction– are due to “the existential vacuum,” a feeling of…Feb 293Feb 293
HopeinThe Good Life: Spring 2024RiotingIn “The Burden of Political Resistance,” Lisa Tessman talks about rioting. In Chapter 5, she talks about how the goals of political…Feb 15Feb 15
HopeinThe Good Life: Spring 2024The Intentions of a PersonIn After Virtue, the author states: “We cannot, that is to say, characterize behavior independently of intentions, and we cannot…Feb 8Feb 8
HopeinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Are We Evil Beings?Every religion has its own opinion on “good versus evil” and how that is reflected in humans. Christians, for instance, believe that man is…Feb 12Feb 12
HopeinThe Good Life: Spring 2024What Does It Mean?To me, one of the most interesting things about humans is how considerably different all of our lives are from one another. It is because…Jan 252Jan 252
HopeinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Always In ControlHarmut Rosa writes in his book that “resonance cannot be made controllable” (Rosa, 2020, p. 38). This is a phrase that would make a fair…Jan 18Jan 18