Video: How to Live a Good Life-IV
Ethical Culture & Secular Humanism
Continuing this special limited series, here is the second video based on How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy, co-edited by Skye Clearly, Dan Kaufman, and yours truly.
Praise for the book included the following: “Philosophy professors Pigliucci, Cleary, and Kaufman deliver on their goal of providing a ‘glimpse of how the world looks through [the] respective lenses’ of 15 major philosophies in this anthology featuring an impressive array of contributors. . . . Readers interested in thinking more about their life-choices and options for change will be grateful for this practical guide to, as the authors write in their conclusion, the ‘possibilities to learn from, ponder, and perhaps adopt.’” —Publishers Weekly
This episode focuses on Ethical Culture and Secular Humanism, featuring contributor Anne Klaeysen (formerly of the New York Society for Ethical Culture). Enjoy!
I've recently had the sense of an extra layer of feeling that seems like it lies behind all cognition and colors everything above it., This discussion of pre-emotion or the irrational tug makes me wonder if that's what is discussed here. Also, Mark Williams, an Oxford don who is a mindfulness and meditation teacher and a developer of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) therapist talks about "feeling tone" or "vedana", the Pali word for it in his book, Deeper Mindfulness. I find myself stepping back and forth across the East/West line in an effort to deal with anxiety and stress, and I often find things that correspond from one side to the other. Does this make sense?
In the introduction of the book, a philosophy of life is described as consisting of (at least) a metaphysical account, and a system of ethics.
How important is having an epistemology in a philosophy of life?