agnes callard – Anne Z

Day 361 of 1000: Imagining a Grand Narrative of Transforming through Grief

How I came to trading through grief after divorce, and why looking at it as a good story helps me cope.

Some transformations involve Callard-style aspirational proleptic reasoning, and some just unfold.

In a personal transition, the neutral zone is a time of disorientation. Applying Dabrowski’s theory of positive disintegration to this concept.

Philosopher Agnes Callard contrasts ambition and aspiration. Ambition seeks understood goals. Aspiration seeks new values.

Philosophers Agnes Callard and L.A. Paul write of personal transformation. How it applies to my reinvention.