2023 repost, on "freudenfreude."

Shakespeare scholar Shannon Murray:
"You certainly met its evil twin, 'schadenfreude' —
the delight and the misfortune of others.
But freudenfreude is its heroic opposite.
It's a delight in the joys and successes of others."

#phronesis

www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

TY. 9/11 teaches on our individual & national blindnesses.

9/10 remembers the before,
9/11 mourns the victims,
but there's never time to reflect
on what US imperialism & Israel support
did to the ME in the decades leading up to 9/11 or after.

That's the most disturbing to us outsiders.
#phronesis

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men with barbarian souls.

Heraclitus, c. 500 BCE, Fragment 13
🖋️ The Complete Fragments, William Harris, tr.
#philosophy #phronesis #antiquity

It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

#poetry #phronesis
🖋️ Aldous Huxley
📸 cc ALT

The 4 key internal powers
I expect from myself & look for in others:

Courage in cases of great effort or danger,
Self-control in the foregoing of pleasure,
Practical Reason in choice of goods and evils,
Justice in giving each person their due.

Cicero, De Finibus V.67 (45 BCE)
#antiquity #phronesis

Uplifting story of agricultural adaptation to the #climate crisis.
#mind-in-nature #phronesis

apnews.com/article/clim...

I'm a sucker for a good love story. 😁
Lovie and I have one, of love at first sight,
so this was a wonderful read.

Kick back with a cuppa or a glass and be uplifted. ✈️
I'm astonished that there is not yet a movie out. 💞

#phronesis (You'll see - practical wisdom.)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Tranquility is courage in repose.

#mind-in-nature #phronesis #Japan
🖋️ Inazo Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan,
1899, 10th rev. ed., 1905, p. 14.
📸 James Willamore