Foundation for Philosophical Orientation @FPOrientation

Philosophy foundation in Nashville, based on the philosophy of orientation, est. in 2019. linktr.ee/orientation_ph… Nashville, Tennessee Joined November 2019

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Foundation for Philosophical Orientation @FPOrientation

a month ago

Have you checked out our newest video podcast yet? "Revisiting America the Philosophical: A Conversation with Carlin Romano" Check it out! Link in bio.

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2 months ago

In this new episode of our video podcast, Carlin Romano joins Reinhard G. Mueller to revisit his 2012 book, America the Philosophical. Watch it on our Youtube channel!

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2 months ago

Sign up for our new seminar on Commitment and Orientation, beginning September 11, 2025. Apply by September 2, 2025. Link in bio.

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2 months ago

Join The Limits of Philosophy seminar! Participation is free, but space is limited. Link in bio!

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2 months ago

Meaning arises in the situation itself: it is not given and fixed in advance.⁠ ⁠ Orientation is initially successful when it finds meaning; what gives your life meaning?

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2 months ago

Announcing a new podcast! Our current FPO Fellow, Jes Heppler, explores what kind of wisdom our body offers in her dissertation on “Gut Feelings and Embodied Epistemology.” Jes and Reinhard discuss her dissertation as well as the question of what knowledge the body provides.

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2 months ago

There is a new volume available from Orientations Press! "How to Orient Oneself in Times of Multiple Crises?" is now available on Orientations Press. You can download them for free on our website. Link in bio!

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2 months ago

The votes are in! Congratulations to our "Routine" photo contest winner, @wildfaouzi The photo, "Ritual, Repetition, Rupture" will be published on our website, and the photographer will also be awarded a cash prize.

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Nietzsche was committed to music from childhood on; it moved him most strongly and helped him to live. He experienced music in a very corporeal way, saying “Doesn’t my stomach protest, too? My heart? My circulation? My intestines? Do I not unnoticeably grow hoarse as I listen?”

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4 months ago

Norms and values, principles and ideals are important guidelines for our everyday life and how we live in society. But they may also conceal what is actually going on around us. So in your decisions, go ahead by respecting ideals, but carefully observe how they work in reality.

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4 months ago

Congratulations to Keren Bester, our FPO Fellow 2025-26! 🎉 Read more about Keren on our website, link in bio.

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4 months ago

Orientation uses leeways. Usually one wants to maintain leeways everywhere for one’s own orientations and decisions, even on a global scale.

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Foundation for Philosophical Orientation @FPOrientation

4 months ago

Individuals are black boxes as their different standpoints are never fully transparent to one another. Since your interlocutor’s statements can always differ from what you expect, communication is contingent; it is doubly contingent as far as both anticipate this when speaking.

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4 months ago

When trusting someone, you cannot expect that the other will return your trust. If this trust and its accompanying self-deceptions persist one-sided, then others will have opportunities for consequential deceptions. As such, trust actually increases the risks of communication.

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4 months ago

We invite submissions for our 2025–2026 Philosophical Essay Prize Competition, centering on the question: Is the Left-Right Distinction Still Useful for Political Orientation? Read more about the competition on our website. Link in bio.

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4 months ago

Michael Lewin’s new essay, “Orientation by Means of Original Word Forms and Meanings,” is a new contribution to our ongoing series of “Essays on Orientation Skills in Everyday and Professional Life,” and is available to read on our website. Check it out at the link in our bio!

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4 months ago

Orientation is the achievement of finding one’s way in a situation under uncertainty and time pressure in order to make out opportunities for action to master the situation.

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Foundation for Philosophical Orientation @FPOrientation

4 months ago

Philosophies originate from individuals and their circumstances. Thus they are somehow accidental and temporal.If their concepts and thoughts are plausible, we would add today, they give orientation. To read the rest, check out our website! Link in bio.

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Foundation for Philosophical Orientation @FPOrientation

5 months ago

This week was the final session in our "Orientations in Politics" seminar! Thank you to all our participants, and especially thank you to the seminar's organizers, Professors Manuel Knoll and Douglas Giles!