by PR@hfpo.com | Mar 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the newest member of our advisory council, Dr. Douglas Giles, PhD!đđđâźď¸ Dr. Douglas Giles is an adjunct assistant professor of philosophy at Elmhurst University where he teaches part-time to be able to devote more time to research and writing. He studied...
by Olga Faccani | Mar 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a brand new essay, Prof. Kathleen Higgins explores the profound disorientation caused by grief and examines how aesthetic experiencesâsuch as rituals, art, and storytellingâcan serve as powerful tools for reorientation. Drawing on Stegmaierâs insights into the...
by PR@hfpo.com | Mar 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
This seminar will take place on Thursdays 10 a.m. â 12 p.m. US Central Time, starting on April 10, 2025. The teachers are: Dr. Natalia Hartinger, George Ogata, Dr. Reinhard G. Mueller, and Dr. Bettina Stumpp. Content: Given the fast-paced nature of technological...
by PR@hfpo.com | Mar 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
At the beginnings of Western philosophy, the dividing lines to âEasternâ thought were blurry. Before the Logos became the dominant concept for organizing knowledge toward wisdom (as in âphilo-sophiaâ), the question of what the sources of that wisdom were, was highly...
by PR@hfpo.com | Feb 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a brand new essay, Dr. Douglas Giles discusses the potential for an understanding of politics through the philosophy of orientation. He writes that Politics is complex, befitting the complex issues faced by society and the myriad complex solutions people offer to...
by PR@hfpo.com | Feb 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Announcing a new seminar: “Orientations in Politics” We will use the terminology of the philosophy of orientation in order to analyze historical and contemporary political positions with regard to their plausibilities, morals, and beliefs. How do political...
by PR@hfpo.com | Jan 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Following the thought-provoking seminar on Nietzscheâs late writings last year, we are thrilled to announce the second part of our Late Nietzsche Seminars, this time dedicated to his final enigmatic work: Ecce Homo. Written in 1888, at the height of his intellectual...
by PR@hfpo.com | Jan 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Today we assume that change in all areas of life, including its most basic conditions, will continue to accelerate. How can we manage to continually reorient ourselves? Can philosophy understand how to keep up with the times? Orientation is, in principle, the...
by Reinhard Mueller | Oct 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Today, we are thrilled to celebrate the 5th birthday of the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation. On this day, five years ago, on October 25, 2019, we inaugurated our foundation in Nashville’s Parthenon, marking the beginning of an incredible journey. On...
by PR@hfpo.com | Oct 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
We are proud to announce a new member of our advisory council: George Ogata, Senior Agile Engagement Manager at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. George Ogata graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in biology and a minor in music. He is currently a...
