Self-Esteem as a Spiritual Discipline
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Hello, everyone! Think about this and tell me what you think.
Self-Esteem as a Spiritual Discipline
Four decades ago, when I began lecturing on self-esteem, the challenge was to persuade people that the subject was worthy of study. Almost no one was talking about self-esteem in those days. Today, almost everyone seems to be talking about self-esteem, and [...]
Tags: experiencing the self, happiness, living consciously, living second-hand, practices, psychotherapy, purposefulness, self-acceptance, self-assertiveness, Self-Esteem, self-image, self-responsibly, spiritual achievement, to think
Posted in Psychology, Self-Esteem
Capitalism: The Libertarian Vision
Monday, May 12, 2008
Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political concept. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her own mind. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights, the principle that a [...]
Tags: Ayn Rand, Capitalism, communism, entrepneur, fascism, free-market economy, individual rights, Individualism, laissez-faire capitalism, Liberty, Nazism, social Darwinism, socialism, Trotsky
Posted in Politics and Social Philosophy, Self-Esteem