Peter Saint-Andre: Best Entries

Over the last 20+ years, I've published ~1700 journal entries. Here are some of the best. (Please note that I don't always agree with what I wrote years ago!)

Habits of Mind

• Forming a Habit (2006-03-10)
• Sand (2009-03-04)
• My To-Don't List (2012-08-20)
• Self-Organization Man (2014-01-28)
• Low Information Diet (2015-02-25)
• Long-Term Projects (2015-02-25)
• Personal Productivity (2016-07-10)
• Below the Surface (2016-11-11)
• Living Deliberately (2016-11-25)
• Philosophy and Ideology (2017-01-01)
• There's Never Just One Cause (2017-01-20)
• Why Do You Think What You Think? (2017-02-11)
• Understanding Others (2018-10-26)
• Serenity (2020-02-09)
• The Power of Reflection (2020-07-13)
• Beyond Binary (2020-09-20)
• A Wider Palette (2020-10-30)
• Holding Fewer Opinions (2021-04-06)
• Opinions about Opinions (2021-05-04)
• Holding Multiple Opinions (2021-05-31)
• Opinions vs. Truths (2021-06-18)
• Opinions Weak and Strong (2021-09-24)
• Philosophy vs. Ideology (2021-11-04)
• Questions and Answers (2020-12-29)
• Cultivating Empathy (2022-01-01)
• Cultivating Curiosity (2022-01-08)
• Opinions, Expectations, and Emotions (2022-02-15)
• Read the Eternities (2022-02-27)
• The Rules of Friendship (2022-03-22)
• Live Long and Prosper (2022-05-05)
• Both Sides, Now (2022-07-21)
• Constraints (2022-07-28)
• Mental Junk Food (2022-08-01)
• Moderation (2022-11-17)
• Political Moderation (2022-11-23)
• What Is the Job of a News Story? (2022-11-29)

History and Culture

• Looking Up (2002-11-26)
• Ideology and Individualism (2003-11-17)
• Albion's Seed (2003-11-30)
• Exits and Trappings (2005-10-07)
• Cultural Dimensions (2005-11-29)
• Exit Strategies (2005-12-08)
• Protestantism and Industrialism (2005-12-18)
• The Anglosphere in America (2006-01-07)
• Canada and America (2006-01-09)
• The Gradual Revolution (2006-02-10)
• Productivity and Prosperity (2006-02-20)
• From America With Love (2006-02-27)
• Understanding America (2006-04-11)
• Understanding America II (2006-05-29)
• Americanism (2006-07-09)

Money and Finance

• Financial Thinking (2009-10-13)
• Investing for the Rest of Us (2016-05-28)
• Crisis Investing (2020-05-28)
• Philosophy and Money (2020-08-06)

Music

• Music of Yes, I (2000-06-29)
• Music of Yes, II (2001-04-16)
• Freedom's Plow (2002-10-18)
• Fundamental Affirmation (2011-08-12)
• Progressive Similarity (2014-12-14)
• Notes Toward an Aristotelian Philosophy of Music (2018-04-13)

Philosophical Practice

• Personal Missions (1999-09-19)
• To Be a Philosopher (2011-07-13)
• The Spheres of Life (2012-06-17)
• Minerval Arts (2015-10-16)
• Philosophy as a Way of Life (2016-12-09)
• Foundations for Philosophical Practice (2018-09-24)
• Goals of Life (2018-10-30)
• Impasses (2018-10-30)
• Investing in Life (2018-11-17)
• Personalism (2019-01-19)
• Dialectic and Deliberation (2020-06-19)
• Compounding Wisdom (2020-08-28)
• Idealism and Identity (2022-01-15)
• Philosophies and Ways of Life (2022-01-21)
• The Underlying Theme (2022-01-27)
• Being an Integrity (2022-05-27)

Philosophical Theory

• Instauratio Magna (2002-09-21)
• The Oort Cloud (2004-11-27)
• Exploration (2005-03-28)
• Consilience (2005-04-10)
• Epistemography (2005-05-05)
• The Same River (2007-02-19)
• Got Science? (2007-02-27)
• The Soul of Stoicism (2022-06-09)

Poetry

• Reflections on My Father's Life (1999-09-02)
• Translating Horace (2000-10-04)
• Ancient Fire (2001-01-01)
• Metrical Matters (2002-01-27)

Politics

• Urban Libertarianism (2002-01-15)
• Progressive Libertarianism (2002-02-23)
• Anti-Politics (2002-12-01)
• Wondering (2003-02-18)
• Jeffersonian (2003-04-06)
• Principles (2003-05-14)
• Nine and Ten (2003-09-03)
• Unvoting (2004-10-02)
• Politically Homeless (2005-12-16)
• The Network Commonwealth Begins At Home (2006-04-30)
• A Politics of Reason (2008-01-11)
• Objectivity (2008-02-10)
• I Unvoted! (2008-11-05)
• If This Be Idealism, Make the Most of It (2009-02-27)
• Left, Right, Up, Down (2010-01-31)
• Finding a Political Home (2012-08-12)
• Ethics and Politics (2016-02-19)
• Working for Freedom (2016-08-14)
• Limited Liability (2017-02-12)
• Politics is a Disease (2017-07-18)
• None of My Business (2017-08-11)
• Election Survival Guide (2020-11-01)

Psychology

• Delphic Wisdom and Modern Science (2022-02-04)
• Social Affordances and Self-Conceptions (2022-04-14)
• Likeability (2022-04-21)
• Exploring Social Space (2022-04-24)

Spirituality

• Spiritual Atheism (2005-04-11)
• Enthusiasm (2006-12-27)
• Natural Divinity (2006-12-28)
• The Irrelevance of God (2016-12-31)

Thinkers: Aristotle

• Aristotle and Thoreau (2003-09-14)
• An Aristotelian Tangent (2014-09-03)
• Aristotle: A First Encounter (2018-02-04)
• Notes Toward an Aristotelian Philosophy of Music (2018-04-13)
• Aristotle's Way: A Review (2019-04-28)
• Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (2020-11-12)
• Who Was Aristotle? (2020-11-24)
• What I've Learned from Aristotle (2021-09-12)
• Aristotle on Ways of Life (2022-01-24)
• How Much is Enough? (2022-03-06)
• The Self as an Achievement (2022-03-16)
• Beautifully Right (2022-07-07)
• Have a Beautiful Life (2022-07-14)

Thinkers: Epicurus

• Letters on Epicurus: A Dialogue about Happiness (2012-03-16)
• The Poets of Epicurus, I: Pessoa (2012-07-21)
• Epicurus as Liberator (2012-08-18)
• The Poets of Epicurus, II: Catullus (2012-08-22)
• A Brief History of Atomism (2012-08-26)
• Montaigne and Lucretius (2012-09-28)
• The Poets of Epicurus, III: Horace (2012-11-03)
• The Poets of Epicurus, IV: Lucretius (2012-11-17)
• The Seven Deadly Sins (2012-11-20)
• Bruno, Lucretius, and Epicurus (2012-12-19)
• The Poets of Epicurus, V: Swinburne (2012-12-20)
• The Poets of Epicurus, VI: Tennyson (2012-12-21)
• Epicurean Analysis (2013-02-24)

Thinkers: Nietzsche

• The Setting Sun and the Rising Sun (2002-08-04)
• Philosopher or Ideologist? (2002-12-04)
• On Enlightenment (2002-12-19)
• Eclecticism as Individualism (2012-03-03)
• Nietzsche's Poetic Effects (2014-03-15)
• Eternal Recurrence (2014-04-15)

Thinkers: Rand

• Why I'm Not a Randian (1995-11-28)
• On Independence (1996-02-03)
• Is There an Objectivist Sense of Life? (1996-04-26)
• Intellectual Organizations (1998-11-06)
• Ladders (2001-06-22)
• Why I am Not an Objectivist (2001-08-26)
• Musical Musings (2002-02-01)
• Notes on Randian Government (2003-01-28)
• Living the Philosophy for Living on Earth (2006-05-31)
• A Democracy of Superiors? (2007-12-30)
• The Tao of Roark Experience (2013-10-23)
• Randian Confusion (2019-02-16)

Thinkers: Thoreau

• Aristotle and Thoreau (2003-09-14)
• Walking with Thoreau (2012-07-19)
• A Thoreauvian Theme (2014-05-15)
• Cultivating Your Higher Ground (2014-06-14)
• Thoreau and the Seasons of Man (2014-07-05)
• Notes Toward The Upland Farm (2014-12-24)
• Economic Autarky at Walden Pond (2015-09-10)
• Thoreau on Magnanimity (2017-01-08)
• Thoreau on Genius (2017-02-04)
• Socrates and Thoreau (2022-06-23)

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