Philosophy and Life Writing

Philosophy as a Performative Way of Life: Writing and Beyond

Philosophy is typically identified with textual practices of reading and writing and oral dialog that have long dominated the genre. But it has also, especially in ancient times, fiercely asserted itself as something other and more than textual exercises. Philosophy claimed to be a comprehensive way of life, an art of living dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom (as the word “philosophia” implies)...

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Philosophical thinking has a side effect: by aiming to find the essence of a diverse set of phenomena, it often makes it difficult to see the differences between them. This can be the case with Mathematics, Programming, Writing and Philosophy itself. Their unified essence is having a shared understanding of the world helped by off-loading our cognitive efforts to suitable languages.

An author's philosophy of physiology textbook writing.

Then I thought of another answer almost as facetious as the first. This was that many textbooks of medical physiology had become very discursive, written primarily by teachers of physiology for other teachers of physiology, and written in language understood by other teachers but not easily understood by the basic student of medical physiology. This, I am afraid, is a failing of all of us in me...

My Life Philosophy

Elderly Life: Its Characteristics, Needs and Philosophy.

BBOSWELL: Boswell: What I admire in Ramsay is his continuing to be so young. Johnson: Why yes sir, it is to be admired. I value myself upon this, that there is nothing of the old man in my conversation. I am now sixty-eight and I have no more of it than at twenty-eight. Boswell: But sir, would you not wish to know old age? He who is never an old man does not know the whole of human life; for ol...