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    • 1 Dormancy
      • Week 01: Human Worth
      • Week 02: Universality
      • Week 03: Justice
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      • Week 06: Avoiding Harm, or Evil
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      • Week 09: Preferences (Desire)
      • Week 10: Autonomy
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      • Week 40: Rebirth
    • 7 Assessing
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      • Week 46: Equality
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Week 10: Autonomy

Zest, the Spice of Life: Opening to Horizons

Zest, the Spice of Life: Opening to Horizons

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never ... Read More about Zest, the Spice of Life: Opening to Horizons

Freedom

Freedom

I do not believe we can have any freedom at all in the philosophical sense, for we act not only under external compulsion but also by inner necessity. Schopenhauer’s saying— “A man can surely do what ... Read More about Freedom

Liberating

Liberating

Becoming liberated is the act of breaking free from constraint. Constraint may be physical, spiritual or both. Those who experience a moment of liberation usually remember it all their lives. Our art ... Read More about Liberating

Choosing

Choosing

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful. [J.R.R. Tolkien, ... Read More about Choosing

Planning

Planning

Because we are autonomous beings capable of imagining what is possible, we can plan actions that can transform our dreams into reality. The ability to plan is an essential part of the human narrative. ... Read More about Planning

Will

The emotional component of autonomy is the will. Philosophers will continue to debate whether it is real but no one can afford to live as though it is not. ... Read More about Will

Autonomy

Though our paths and our fortunes may be linked, each of us experiences life as an autonomous individual. Fantasy though it may be, it seems as though we are endowed with an independence of person. ... Read More about Autonomy

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