Up@dawn@Substack

A giant of philosophy

Commemorating a great philosopher and a better man

Mar 23 •

Phil Oliver

Faith, gratitude, sublimity, happiness

A remarkable 30 minutes with Paul Simon and Stephen Colbert

Mar 16 •

Phil Oliver

YouNeverKnow

A great word, though an unsettling state of mind. But this much I know...

Mar 14 •

Phil Oliver

Elizabeth Zott, meliorist

Meliorists are social chemists, who embrace and catalyze constructive change. We must learn their lessons.

Mar 12 •

Phil Oliver

Lifelong companions

We have much to learn from our most loyal sidekicks, our forever pals.

Feb 23 •

Phil Oliver

The Jamesian shrink

On a search for the cure, inspired by Marcus Aurelius, William James, Walker Percy, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Lou Marinoff. And my dogs.

Feb 21 •

Phil Oliver

Stellar

Emerson was right about the days being (natural) gods, the best ones anyway.

Feb 19 •

Phil Oliver

LXVII

That's my number. Before it was my age it was a special year.

Feb 17 •

Phil Oliver

Up@dawn@Substack

Reflections caught mostly at daybreak, posted on my Up@dawn blog (jposopher.blogspot.com), and archived here & there. I'm a philosophy prof in Tennessee interested in culture, literature, politics, humanism, the future of life... and baseball.

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