{"id":6,"date":"2020-01-08T17:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/george-andersen.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2020-01-08T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T23:22:00","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/george-andersen.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" src=\"http:\/\/george-andersen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/philosophy-front-300x182-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Welcome!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This site is built around the idea that there are degrees of living \nconsciously and that people can improve their life by reflecting on it, \nidentifying and addressing their issues, and by improving their \ncharacter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, philosophy is not only an academic discipline but also a \npractical activity that helps us live life consciously and morally. One \nway of conceiving the human experience is to view it as a series of \nexternal and internal events that have an effect on us, and to which we \ntend to give meaning. In a way, we are constantly asked by life, \nmetaphorically speaking, \u201cWhat do you do in this particular situation?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we care about living a meaningful life, in which we respect \nourselves and the others, we would naturally try to do what we think is \ngood or right, out of a good character, rather than interest. In this&nbsp; \nsense, I think philosophy can help us become better people,&nbsp;as it&nbsp;helps \nus find virtuous responses to the questions life asks of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his book \u201cPhilosophy As a Way of Life\u201d, Pierre Hadot reminds us \nthat for the Stoics, the task of philosophy is to educate people, so \nthat they seek only the goods they are able to obtain, and try to avoid \nthose evils which it is possible to avoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! This site is built around the idea that there are degrees of living consciously and that people can improve their life by reflecting on it, identifying and addressing their issues, and by improving their character. To me, philosophy is not only an academic discipline but also a practical activity that helps us live life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/george-andersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/george-andersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/george-andersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george-andersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george-andersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/george-andersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/george-andersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/george-andersen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}