I decided I wanted to continue on my midterm topic of the philosophical approaches to anxiety, because it was by far the most interesting thing that stuck out to me throughout the duration of the course. In my previous report I mainly covered the book "How to Live" by Sarah Bakewell, focusing primarily on Chapter 6, the "tips and tricks" for how to live. This chapter scratches the surface of a few different approaches that Montaigne suggests to combat the fears and anxieties of human life. For this continuation of the presentation, I wanted to continue the same way I did previously, so I will be attaching a PowerPoint as well as a few links rather than a completely typed out presentation.
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How Taoist philosophy deals with the concept of anxiety - Big Think
I've heard that A-word (often conjoined with "social") mentioned self-descriptively more times by students this semester than ever before. I wonder if anxiety is that much more rampant now, among the young, than it ever was before? Or if there's been a snow-balling of self-diagnosis, since this terminology has come into popular vogue? I suspect people have always been anxious but didn't know to call it that. This is not to deny the special challenges of this particular historical/technological/social moment, but I think some might feel better about their own anxiety to realize that it's always been a rite of passage associated with growing up: acknowledging one's self-doubts and fears etc., and then also getting on with the business of living and growing. Growing up, after all, is just a stage of growth in the course of a lifetime. Later on, of course, you'll still have doubts and fears. But you'll come to see that as simply part of being human. It's not an affliction, it's the human condition.
ReplyDeletePerfectly put, Dr. Oliver!
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