List: The Philosophy of Happiness | Curated by Lucy Weir

Jan 19, 2023
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The Philosophy of Happiness
Lucy Weir
Our global suffering can be mitigated by how we think about things nowLucy Weir, PhD
Apr 3, 2020
Apr 3, 2020
Lucy Weir
Trying to explainThe above is the title of a book by Donald Davie. I’m using it here because I’ve been asked a few times recently to a) describe what it is…
Jun 30, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
Lucy Weir
Three things that are wrong with the philosophies of Eckhart Tolle and Depak Chopra, and three…Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra have made a lot of money telling people to live in the now, and to attract wealth and influence by having…
Jul 12, 2021
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Jul 12, 2021
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Three things you can do to lessen suffering in the ecological emergencyWe’re in an ecological emergency. This includes but is not limited to changes in the atmosphere affecting climate. This also includes the…
Aug 20, 2021
Aug 20, 2021
Lucy Weir
The emergency is in us, and in our storiesThe problems we face as a result of our impact, as a species, on other systems, have emerged out of deeply rooted ideas we have of our…
Sep 20, 2021
Sep 20, 2021
Lucy Weir
BrahmacharyaIt’s always interesting to look at the origins of words: Brahma means God, or a version of the divine. What is your sense of god, or the…
Sep 30, 2021
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Sep 30, 2021
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Dealing with Bad ApplesWe all have relationships with colleagues, family members, or others who are close to us, that don’t work. Sometimes we know that this…
Oct 7, 2021
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Oct 7, 2021
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Can philosophy demonstrate value? Is there in fact a fact/ value divide?Can we transform how we see the world and how we live our lives through shifting our perspective on reflections on our own consciousness…
Oct 18, 2021
Oct 18, 2021
Lucy Weir
“Even a god cannot change the past”Agathon, quoted in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Book VI, sect. 2, 1139b
Oct 21, 2021
Oct 21, 2021
Lucy Weir
My Agreement with this Medium — and something (to begin with) on Sam HarrisNew year is rather a random event from my perspective, although as a Scot, one might expect that I would be rather wedded to the idea of…
Jan 5, 2022
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Jan 5, 2022
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Ahimsa and the ecological emergency: an extract from my latest bookAhimsa
Jan 20, 2022
Jan 20, 2022
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The Ecological Emergency, Catastrophe, and OpportunityKata or streiphen?
Jan 20, 2022
Jan 20, 2022
Lucy Weir
Compassionate Attunement and Ecological ResponsibilityWhat if?
Feb 18, 2022
Feb 18, 2022
Lucy Weir
Invading others’ spaceI read a fantastic article — wait. No. I didn’t. I read the blurb and introduction to a fantastic article here on Medium by J. J. Pryor…
Feb 26, 2022
Feb 26, 2022
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Patience, Grasshopper.Hello there. If you haven’t read anything by me before, you’re very welcome and thanks for stopping by. This is like a vast flea market…
Mar 12, 2022
Mar 12, 2022
Lucy Weir
Why I self published my third book on philosophy (and yoga) — and what it’s taught meI’ve just published my third book myself, at minimal expense. (Please feel free to buy it — it’s relevant to what we’re going through…
Mar 24, 2022
Mar 24, 2022
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The mesh we’re in“ . . . Lightly, my darling, lightly. Even when it comes to dying. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos…
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 29, 2022
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The mesh we’re in Part TwoThis confrontation of reality, looking directly at the way that things are for us, right now, is at the core of meditative awareness, isn’t…
Apr 13, 2022
Apr 13, 2022
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The Mesh We’re In: Part ThreeYes, this is a bit all over the place. The title capitalisation is inconsistent. Being inconsistent is a glitch, a feature of being human…
Apr 13, 2022
Apr 13, 2022
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We can’t change the world. We have to change ourselves“It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself, and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve. If the mind is…
May 16, 2022
May 16, 2022