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Moral Moments

Things Take Time: The Schedule

by Joel Marks

The motivating question of these Moral Moments columns has been: How shall one live? Well, what could be more to the point than how we get through the day? I have in mind particularly how we manage our time. This may not seem like a philosophical issue, just one of efficiency. Yet I am prepared to argue that everything hangs on it. In the state of nature, as Hobbes informed us, life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” In the state of (so-called) civilization in which you and I live, life has become longer; but it is also rushed, at times chaotic, and as a result can seem meaningless.

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