by The New Agora | Jan 11, 2023 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com 5 Signs You May Be a Positive Deviant “To be a philosopher is precisely not to be a person who never deviates from a single doctrine but to have a history of change.” ~Raymond Guess What does it mean to be a positive...
by The New Agora | Dec 30, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Become a Blackbelt in Badassery “Living well does not mean avoiding suffering; it means suffering for the right reasons. Because if we are going to be forced to suffer, we might as well learn how to suffer well.”...
by The New Agora | Dec 17, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com The Art of Animism: The Frog, The Duck, and The Fox “A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.” ~Martin Heidegger You are a multifaceted animal. All humans are. You...
by The New Agora | Dec 12, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Become a Disturber of the Peace by Gary Z. McGee “I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.” ~Spinoza The job of the philosopher has always been to upset the settled mind,...
by The New Agora | Dec 6, 2022 | Gary Z McGee, The New Agora
www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com How to Integrate the Hero When the Shadow Has Won by Gary Z. McGee “The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it....