Bedste Day To Dawn-podcasts (2024)

Our fourth and final Lifelong Learner's Happiness class at MTSU will glean the wisdom of Montaigne, Hume, James, Russell, Csikszentmihalyi, and Jennifer Michael Hecht. "Hang a sign that says HOME on a tree and you're done." And, Dr. Seuss: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”Af Phil Oliver

1
Hegel & Schopenhauer 6:08

Play Pause

9y ago6:08

6:08

In search of Reality itself, we might do better to focus on lower-case realities like a well-pitched softball game or a World Series championship.Af Phil Oliver

1
Camus's Myth of Sisyphus 9:04

9y ago9:04

9:04

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."Af Phil Oliver

1
Pangloss and meliorism 12:00

9y ago12:00

12:00

A better world has to be possible.Af Phil Oliver

1
Mill's happiness 13:26

9y ago13:26

13:26

J.S. Mill recovered from overzealous homeschooling with the aid of music and poetry.Af Phil Oliver

1
Lenoir's Happiness 16-18 8:21

9y ago8:21

8:21

Individual & collective happiness; desire, boredom, loving life as it is.Af Phil Oliver

1
Seneca, Schopenhauer 9:00

9y ago9:00

9:00

Seneca, Stoics, Schopenhauer - if your "deeper nature" isn't happy enough, can you change it?Af Phil Oliver

1
Study Abroad course July 2016-American philosophy, British roots 5:16

9y ago5:16

5:16

Come on along! Details at delightsprings.blogspot.com.Af Phil Oliver

1
Happiness & the good life 12:04

9y ago12:04

12:04

Haybron's ch8Af Phil Oliver

1
The sources of happiness 8:41

9y ago8:41

8:41

From Daniel Haybron's "Very Short Inroduction" ch5.Af Phil Oliver

1
I believe in the peripatetic life 7:12

9y ago7:12

7:12

Looking at "This I Believe," and the conviction of some of us that the best philosophy comes from "feet on the ground."Af Phil Oliver

1
Happiness is to be "dissolved" 2:59

9y ago2:59

2:59

So said Willa Cather, via Maria Popova.Af Phil Oliver

1
Opening deja-vu 13:32

9y ago13:32

13:32

Looking back at last year's Opening Day of the academic season, as this year's approaches.Af Phil Oliver

1
The college game 5:29

9y ago5:29

5:29

In anticipation of a new academic year, reflections on why and how we play this college game and a tip to take the time YOU need to get what college can give you.Af Phil Oliver

1
Springs 2 10:36

9y ago10:36

10:36

2d installment of the Springs project, a slow-read recording of "William James's 'Springs of Delight'-the Return to Life" (Vanderbilt Press, 2001), read by author Phil Oliver.Af Phil Oliver