Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Chrysanthemum morifolium: Stanford talk - What is a Good Life, Shige Oishi, What it means to lead a psychologically rich life, Socrates, Aristotle, Victor van Kooten's Yogic Art, Searched on "good life" Stanford Encyclpedia of Philosophy, A Good Life? Heading to Harbin Hot Springs for soaking, heading to Yoga workshops with Angela & Victor in Lesbos Greece ... seems that being a student at Stanford would be a good life ... Creating World University and School as free universal highest quality education in ~200 countries' official / main languages, and in all 7097 living languages, ongoing actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' research, making music, and eventually raising a family ...


Stanford talk - What is a Good Life

Shige Oishi

https://events.stanford.edu/events/801/80114/

culture
psychology
well-being


is now a professor at Columbia University.

Shigehiro Oishi was just a professor at the University of Virginia

Personality and Culture (video) -
https://youtu.be/YC7LxSSrJYE


http://people.virginia.edu/~so5x/me2.htm

https://psychology.as.virginia.edu/oishi


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Intro to his Stanford talk:

What it means to lead a psychologically rich life


Shige

today I will talk about

What is a Good Life

And by extension what is a good society


Kaleidoscopic psychology focus

Happy
Meaningful

Psychologically rich life


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Was curious about the linguistic aspects of his research in multiple languages - re translating the main words of his talk and research into other languages to ask these questions comparatively - and asked him about this after his talk, as I gave him my Harbin Hot Springs' book card (since I was out of my WUaS card) ... and re online virtual Harbin research into happiness ... and mentioned how much research potential there is in this project re the psychology of happiness.

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Was curious too whether and how he focused on questions of "loving bliss" in his happiness research.






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Image result for what is the good life for socrates
Thoughtfulness and critical self-awareness as a way of life is what Socrates stands for. That is why he adopted “Know thyself” as the main maxim for hislife, and why his best known pronouncement is "the unexamined life is not worth living."


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For Aristotle, moral virtue plays a special role in living well. ... Good habits or moral virtues are the principle means to having good lives because they allow us to habitually make the choices that both constitute and lead to good lives. The most important moral virtues or habits are moderation, courage, and justice.Dec 19, 2013

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A good life: Friendship, Art and Truth

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Alexander Nehamas

Abstract


In September 2017 Alexander Nehamas kindly accepted our invitation to have a meeting in Athens in order to discuss several issues of philosophical interest; with his latest publication On Friendship (New York: Basic Books, 2016) as a starting point we soon moved over to a multitude of topics Nehamas has so far dealt with. The whole conversation spirals around the probably most challenging and demanding issue as far as practical philosophy is concerned – yet one every moral agent needs to provide an adequate answer to during his lifetime: Values. Do they exclusively belong to the domain of morality? Nehamas claims that “although moral values […] are important […], they are not the only values that determine whether a life is or is not worthwhile”. This view inevitably shifts the focus from individual values - even fundamental ones such as friendship, art and truth- to the real issue: What is a good life, after all?

https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/15992/0



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Glad Victor posted this this day, probably from Lesvos, Greece, with a new painting - http://angela-victor.com/.






Yoga leading to the architipal layers


There is a lot of noise around religions these days. Does God exist or is it a Goddess who created the universe. Should we be more scientific and look at facts? I do like to draw and paint and my inner world is as important to me as the outer world around me.
So I made this drawing today and things come to me when I look at it.
The world is round, although it appears here to be flat....
It has four directions, four seasons, splitting it into four sections or like the cell division after fertilization, creating a cross.
If that is the Cosmic egg onto which the bird is brooding, then it is also the Tree of Life, onto which we are all crucified, since our nature is totally dependent on the environment of the Earth. The Tree of Life sprouting out of the digested autumn leaves of past.( in our human case being the bones of our ancestors)
The Sun and the Moon and all the universe being the power that sets it into motion, the strings of the puppeteer, the snakes that created our divisional path that allows us to live on this wonderfully rich planet.
http://angela-victor.com/blogs/victor/yoga-leading-architipal-layers


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Searched on
good life Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ...


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The Common Good (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)



https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/common-good/

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A Good Life?

Heading to Harbin Hot Springs for soaking (and meditating in the warm pools), heading to Yoga workshops with Angela and Victor in Lesbos, Greece ... It seems that being a student at Stanford would be a good life ...

Creating World University and School as free universal highest quality education in ~200 countries' official / main languages, and in all 7,097 living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning, ongoing actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' research, making music, and eventually raising a family ... creating in ways that help people in their cultures and languages ... traveling a lot ...

It seems too that being a student at a great online university (a kind of Stanford / Reed / Harbin Hot Springs' Harbinger University?) in one's own language with all the innovative potential of creating via the Web would be a good life ... and that anybody could be a student / learner in this too wiki-wise+ ... so that it is inclusive ... would be a good life.

Loving bliss generation (and not just writing about this) ... and in ethical societies in all ~200 nation states, seeking to address social justice issues too ... would be a good life. (In terms of ethics, I have Quaker / Friendly understandings of ethics +).

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And philosophically and psychologically re current disciplines in academic research (pour moi) with their long histories of asking these questions, and scientifically and rigorously ... What is a Good Life?

Let's explore this online too - for actual-virtual comparison - and in ways that help people become happy in flourishing ways (applied research, in a sense) ...




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