By Mark Manson / 08.24.2017 What if it’s Enough to Simply Be? If you have to try to be cool, you will never be cool. If you have to try to be happy, then you will never be happy. Maybe the problem these days is people are just trying too hard. Happiness, like other emotions,[…]
Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697 / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Philosophy Pages The first edition of the Essay included a brief chapter, “Of Power,” dealing with the nature of human volition. Despite the admiration of his friends, Locke expressed both surprise at[…]