{"id":217,"date":"2019-09-12T01:26:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/?p=217"},"modified":"2023-08-24T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:16:39","slug":"connections-philosophy-in-the-real-world-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallegft.sites.wfu.edu\/cms\/guides\/connections-philosophy-in-the-real-world-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Connections: Philosophy in the Real World, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are some resources that might be interesting for you to examine if you would like to think more deeply about some of the topics we have covered in Unit 1 of the course.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anger<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Wikipedia article on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tone_policing\">tone policing<\/a> and Audre Lourde\u2019s famous 1981 discourse on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/african-american-history\/1981-audre-lorde-uses-anger-women-responding-racism\/\">The Uses of Anger<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><li>Agnes Callard\u2019s short online essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thepointmag.com\/2019\/examined-life\/agnes-callard-the-emotion-police\">The Emotion Police<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fear<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This American Life, ep. 682, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/682\/transcript\">Ten Sessions<\/a>,\u201d on cognitive processing therapy for trauma.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Harry Frankfurt\u2019s essay on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1g476IluLILUCUq0X7T8Dz_ebqhVCDtws\/view?usp=sharing\">On Love and its Reasons<\/a>,\u201d where he argues that we do not love for reasons but, rather, love <em>gives <\/em>us reasons.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The popular TED Talks on romantic love by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DCS6t6NUAGQ\">Alain de Botton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sa0RUmGTCYY\">Esther Perel<\/a>.<\/li><li>The musical interpretation of Aristophanes\u2019 discourse on love in Plato\u2019s <em>Symposium <\/em>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_zU3U7E1Odc\">Hedwig and the Angry Inch<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Compassion and empathy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two episodes of the Hidden Brain podcast, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/12\/24\/679805551\/the-science-of-compassion\">The Science of Compassion<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/22\/744195502\/you-2-0-the-empathy-gym\">You 2.0: The Empathy Gym<\/a>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Laughter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hannah Gadsby\u2019s stand-up special on Netflix, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5aE29fiatQ0\">Nannette<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grief<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The series of short essays on grief and trauma by philosopher Robert Stolorow on the Psychology Today website, e.g., this short piece on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/feeling-relating-existing\/201506\/the-emotional-topography-grief\">The Emotional Topography of Grief<\/a>.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Spirituality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The short documentary on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/55073825\">The Overview Effect<\/a>\u201d by Planetary Collective.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Susan Wolf\u2019s well-known essay on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rintintin.colorado.edu\/~vancecd\/phil150\/Wolf.pdf\">The Question, \u2018What is the Meaning of Life?\u2019<\/a>\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some 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