Leisure is Counter-Conduct
In the modern world of "total work" demanded by the left hemisphere, we need to carve out leisure. It's helpful to understand what "leisure" is.
Topic
Philosophy
A collection of 133 issues
How to Raise a Sane Child
Rule Number One: Don't be a Nominalist
My three-year-old son Jack received a menagerie of thirty-some plastic animals at Christmas to go with the dozen or so he already owned. He played with his “anmuls” constantly, carrying them around in different containers (wagon, bag, box, hat) and setting
Optimal Work on Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture
Is That Guy Stupid, a Jerk, or Both?
Noisiness tends to stem from an inability to look outside oneself, which is something both the unintelligent and the boors lack
Seeking Transcendentals
Why Did I Order a Two-Volume History of Economic Thought?
Fun, improvement, and volunteerism. That's how we might use current catchwords to answer the primordial question, “How ought we to live our lives?”
That question hit me hard a few summers ago when I opened up a mail
A Foucauldian Defense of Liberalism
By David McGrogan at Law & Liberty
The Demolition of the Western Mind
Louis Markos at The Imaginative Conservative
Hamlet in the Metaxy
By Stephen Conlin at The Imaginative Conservative
When Gods Fight, Men Die
It is important for us to realize that mankind is doomed to live more and more under the spell of a new scientific, social, and political mythology, unless we resolutely exorcise these befuddled notions whose influence on modern life is becoming appalling. Millions of men are starving or bleeding to
The End of the Culture of Narcissism
Ashley Colby at UnHerd