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Six Practices to Make Philosophy Part of Your Home

Six Practices to Make Philosophy Part of Your Home

Ruth and Emet, Van Aiken Market, Shaker Heights, Ohio, August 2023 Closing out seven years writing for the blog, I want to thank Nathan Eckstrand, Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen, Richard Byron-Gibson, Sabrina Misirhiralall, Sidra Shahid, Katherine Cassese, Mike Morris, and Michelle Crabb — as well as many copyeditors, beat editors, and senior editors with whom I interacted only briefly. Thank you for providing a space to attempt some humane philosophy! Revised from a Public lecture, Wrocławskie Centrum Akademickie Wednesday, October 11th, 2023, 16h-18h, with thanks to Urszula Lisowska and the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław ~ In some ways, there is no better place for philosophy than in a home. Homes are often where we can be with family or find solitude and in these and many other ways get some space and time to be ourselves and to think, perhaps to grow. If they are not stressed by conflict or marred by trauma, homes are places to reflect and to wonder. What better setting for philosophy, provided that the home is peaceful and secure enough, …