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?
Very good question! I think it is, and so did pretty much all the Greco-Roman schools, including skeptics, Stoics, Epicureans, and Cyrenaics. But religions usually don’t come with an epistemology…
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?
Scott, I think I know what you are referring to, but I’ve never had that feeling myself.
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?
Very good question! I think it is, and so did pretty much all the Greco-Roman schools, including skeptics, Stoics, Epicureans, and Cyrenaics. But religions usually don’t come with an epistemology…