Tag: vita contemplativa
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Day 434 of 1000: Achievement Minimalism
Seeking contentment with the life I have rather than continuing to pursue more social contacts, more money, more external validation.
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Day 431 of 1000: Creating a Philosophical Place of Practice
How to find a philosophical place of practice when you’re a suburban midlife empty nester? Create one yourself.
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Day 374 of 1000: Arendt on Labor, Work, and Action
Arendt promoted the vita activa over the vita contemplativa and distinguished between labor, work, and action. The activa can support the contemplativa.
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Day 323 of 1000: The Vita Negativa
Taleb says “knowlege grows by subtraction.” Expanding upon this to a sovereign lifestyle of saying no to the achievement society.
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Day 274 of 1000: Cultivating the Excluding Instinct
Learning to exclude crowding and intrusive stimuli so as to live the vita contemplativa. Ideas from Han and Nietzsche.
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Day 208 of 1000: Seeking boredom in 2026
Walter Benjamin’s “dream bird” of boredom which “hatches the egg of experience.” What that means and how Byung-Chul Han reformulated the idea.