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Author: Derek Parsons

Sacred Consecrated Spaces Waiting Rooms Places Erraticus
(Martin Lostak)
Essays Society & Culture 

Consecrated Waiting Rooms

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Derek Parsons 2 Comments Architecture, Emotional Well-being

Whether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transitory nature of existence.

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Absurdism The Plague Albert Camus The Absurd COVID-19 Myth of Sisyphus
("Bring Out Your Dead" by Edmund Evans)
Essays Philosophy 

It’s All a Bit Absurd

February 15, 2021March 27, 2021 Derek Parsons 0 Comments Absurdism, Emotional Well-being, Pandemic

Amidst a pandemic, Albert Camus’ novel The Plague suggests that we can find courage, community, and hope while embracing the absurd.

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Community Consciousness Mind Matter Panpsychism Derek Parsons
(Daniel Öberg)
Ideas Philosophy 

A Community of Consciousness: Bridging the Gap Between Mind and Matter

January 21, 2021April 7, 2021 Derek Parsons 0 Comments Consciousness, Nature, Panpsychism

Considering the practical consequences of panpsychism might shed some light on consciousness, bridging the gap between mind and matter.

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Spiritual Love Originates Shared Suffering Pity Erraticus Derek Parsons Sick Child Edvard Munch
("The Sick Child" by Edvard Munch, 1925)
Essays Philosophy 

Love Originates in Shared Suffering and Pity

January 4, 2021March 27, 2021 Derek Parsons 1 Comment Love, Relationships, Suffering, Tragedy

The early twentieth-century Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno clarifies the places and events from which love emerges.

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Loneliness in Nature and Threshold Places Erraticus Emerson Thoreau
(Derek Parsons)
Essays Philosophy 

Alone in One of Nature’s Threshold Places

July 1, 2020April 22, 2021 Derek Parsons 1 Comment Essential Reading, Henry David Thoreau, Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Romanticism, Transcendence

The most fortifying experiences in nature are often found in lonely, transitional zones. But what is the reality of these threshold places?

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A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas

An online publication focused on human flourishing, taking a pragmatic approach to ideas. We care about ideas that help us to live well together, focusing on their practical consequences.

 

“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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