Tag: philosophy

Written by StephenB

Maturity IV

As one’s physical umbilical cord is cut to leave the womb behind, so one must cut one’s mental/emotional umbilical cord to leave the matrix of childhood behind. Compare: Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause […]

Written by StephenB

Memento mori I

The first installment in a recurring series of meditations on death. Compare: Memento Mori — (Latin: remember you will die)–is the ancient practice of reflection on our mortality that goes back to Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is “about nothing else but dying and being dead.” https://dailystoic.com/what-is-memento-mori/