Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
How “human activities” should be and have been understood throughout Western history.
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ENTER GHOST, EXIT BEAR: STAGE DIRECTIONS IN PLAYS
OCTOBER 1, 2025 I love plays. Listening to them, watching them, reading them, directing them – but not acting in them. I remember the days when the British Council Library had shelves of plays published by Samuel French. I would spend hours sitting on the floor of the inside room, just reading scripts. Seriously, though,…
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MY TEACHERS DAY TRIBUTE
SEPTEMBER 3, 2025 TRANSCRIPT Sept. 5 – Teachers Day in India – is about teaching. It is dedicated to all educators from Nursery Teachers to University professors in memory of India’s first (sic) President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan. He taught philosophy at the Universities of Madras, Mysore, Calcutta in India; at Manchester College and Oxford in…
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T&L Music and Language – Here, There… Where?
Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady’s chamber… The contexts in which private music classes for beginners are held and a school classroom are surprisingly similar in certain ways. Anyone who has studied in an Indian school is familiar with how classrooms look and classes function. With no change over 60 years that I remember. (That dates…
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T&L Music & Language: I Teach, So I Am
A Subject teacher complained vociferously about Arts teachers at a meeting. “They don’t know history, philosophy or pedagogy of education, “ she said. “we can’t talk to them about anything related to our classroom or students. All day long they sing or sit around listening to songs. They don’t do anything. ” There was a profound,…
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T&L Music and Language: I Perform, So I Should Be
Teachers are often likened to actors, they are said to ‘perform’ in front of students in their classes, which is a contentious statement when we examine their belief systems. (Another topic for another post.) Arts and language teachers can ‘perform’ their content. Music is undoubtedly a performance art, with a public stage and an audience…
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Building An Iconic Temple with Siddharth Vijayaraghavan – Transcript
Aristotle’s take on ethics and the science of the good for human life.
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Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) by Lao Tzu
A fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism.
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