Arnold Siegel, author of Autonomy and Life, says owning our life includes characterizing your identity, unifying your voice, and recognizing your selfhood.
Crunch Time
The unexamined life is not worth living, said Socrates. It’s not worth living because it leaves us without access to the elevated joys of wonder, creativity, gratitude, fulfillment and satisfaction.
Until it is the artificial intelligence of robots that tells us what “it’s all about,” human beings provide our information about the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. Without such information, we are, in large part, reflexive entities, driven forward and set back by forces we can’t see and don’t understand. Without such information, we live much of
Filtering Your Anger
We choose how we will behave — responsibly, morally, lawfully and productively.
A Philosophy of the Life Lived Autonomously
We are in the world, a manifestation of possibility, a subject of the world as we find it, on its terms.
When We Are at Our Best
When we put our ego-function to use authentically, we are free to create a life of our own design and able to enjoy it.
Grab the Bull by the Horns
Autonomy and life is a performance and more than that, it is an enterprise.
The Rewarding Life
An interview with Arnold Siegel.
Finding Your True North
In our transcendent watch over the ego function ... we find our belonging, meaning, relevance and peace of mind.
