by Alma | May 10, 2020 | Alma stories, Posts English
It happened a few months ago while I was on one of my business trips and had to kill time at the airport in Rome. I walked into a bookstore and browsed through some books here and there, when I found myself immersed in a book of the philosopher Gabriel Marcel. I am...
by Alma | Apr 28, 2020 | Alma stories, Posts English
I knew your husband would die sooner than later, being a hopeless smoker all his life, having had already a heart attack, in addition to other health problems. You knew it as well, and so did he. He seemed to be more worried about leaving you behind than about his own...
by Alma | Apr 14, 2020 | Alma stories, Posts English
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD): A Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor. Think often about the speed in which things pass by and disappear, both natural things and artificial things. Because the material world is like a river in a never-ending flow, and the activities of...
by Ran Lahav | Mar 31, 2020 | Posts English, Ran
“I worked so hard to improve myself, but I am still so imperfect! Yesterday I yelled at the neighbor, and today I ate like a pig …” I call it THE COCKROACH PRINCIPLE: One small cockroach in a wonderful soup makes the entire soup disgusting. But the opposite isn’t...
by Ran Lahav | Mar 13, 2020 | Posts English, Ran
What can Deep Philosophy give us these days, when the world faces an epidemic, uncertainties, fears, and disruption? Deep Philosophy cannot solve medical problems, but it can give us an inner center to face the situation, and to face life. It is now especially...
by Ran Lahav | Mar 2, 2020 | Posts English, Ran
What do we do in philosophical contemplation? We enter a different world, or even more: we enter a new world-order. Let me explain. Human beings have an amazing ability: to enter alternate realities. When I read a book or watch a movie – Lord of the Rings, for example...
by Ran Lahav | Feb 18, 2020 | Posts English, Ran
“I participated in a session of Deep Philosophy, but I did not gain any new knowledge!” “Nevertheless, was the philosophizing itself significant?” Traditionally, philosophers philosophize in order produce a result – a new theory, a new idea. At the end of their...
by Ran Lahav | Feb 6, 2020 | Posts English, Ran
“Why do we need Deep Philosophy? Which needs does it satisfy?” That’s a wrong question to ask. To see this, compare: Which needs does poetry satisfy? Reading poetry does not satisfy any pre-existing need. Before you knew there was poetry in the world, or before you...
by Ran Lahav | Jan 27, 2020 | Posts English, Ran
Many historical thinkers realized that we usually live on the surface of life. Those thinkers, whom we call “transformational philosophers,” noted that our everyday existence is imprisoned in superficial patterns of thought and emotion which engage only a limited part...
by Ran Lahav | Jan 18, 2020 | Posts English
If had to define Deep Philosophy in a single sentence, I would say: In Deep Philosophy we reflect on basic life-issues from our inner depth, in togetherness with our companions and with historical philosophical texts. Notice several points here: First, this...
