Nostalgia’s Sweet Bite
Sweet Bites for November 22, 2024
Hi all,
Welcome to another edition of Sweet Bites, Mind Candy’s bite-sized newsletter with thought-provoking finds to send you into the weekend with.
This week we explored nostalgia (links below).
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📖 International Philosophy Day
Today is International Philosophy Day! In honor of it, here are five quotes to ponder:
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.”
Albert Camus
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“To do philosophy is to explore one's own temperament, and yet at the same time to attempt to discover the truth.”
Iris Murdoch
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“Philosophy I will nevertheless regard as my vocation and never let slip a chance to stroke at it.”
William James
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“I profit from a philosopher only insofar as he can be an example.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Philosophy at its best was to be learn by rote--not in the sense of mindless memorization, but in the sense of learning something by heart and enacting it in experience. This most personal of knowledge was meant to give individuals the courage to determine their own lives, without the guidance of teachers or priests.”
John Kaag
✏️ This Week’s Note
’s newest book, How to Think Like Socrates, a continuation of sorts of his book on Marcus Aurelius, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, was released this week and I had the opportunity to ask him why he though practical philosophy was seeing a resurgence over the last several decades. If you haven’t already, check out his response below.
📚 This Week’s Monday Meditation
✏️ This Week’s Wednesday Wisdom
📰 Articles Woth a Read
You can feel nostalgia for things you haven’t lost yet by Shayla Love
I also enjoyed the below short video, A nostalgic ode to being 15, and was immediately nostalgic myself. I was part of the first generation to have social media and can still remember times before it all, before everyone was experiencing events through their phones rather than the emotion and power of the event itself.
I also remember how excited I was to get my first cell phone, or be a part of Facebook, or have a MySpace.
I remember these things long before they became what they did, and I myself do long at times (there’s the nostalgia in me again) for simpler times when everything was not so technologically focused and we just experience life.
A nostalgic ode to being 15 by Celia Willis
💡 Overview of Nostalgia
The below video by
is how I first discovered Clay Routledge’s work on philosophy and is an excellent primer for those looking to dive deeper into the emotion and are interested in his research which can be found in his book, Past Forward.And if you enjoyed the above by him, be sure to checkout the below Ted talk he did.
🦉 Wisdom
“I submit that nostalgia for lost alternatives is distorted by hindsight. Looking back from a place of relative stability, I project into my youth a degree of assurance that comes from having a more or less secure identity. At the same time, I assume an open future, an ignorance of what is to come that shields me from unsatisfied desire. But the prospect is an illusion. You can't have it both ways, knowing who you are but not who you are not.”
Kieran Setiya
Source: Midlife
Until next time,
D.A. DiGerolamo
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