Completely Pumped
Do you believe in destiny and second chances?
Destiny exists; free choice moderates. You know the answers inside you. Go on a journey within your being and find the truth. You’ll know when you’ve found it. It’s been there all along.
Adam Smith points out that people who lose their mental faculities are the objects of our compassion even though they themselves are not aware of this loss: what is significant is the magnitude of the loss, as the onlooker estimates its role in the life of the loser. This requires, in turn, a highly complex set of moral abilities, including the ability to imagine what it is like to be in that person’s place (what we usually call empathy) , and also the ability to stand back and ask whether the person’s own judgement has taken the full measure of what has happened.
Hope for compassion; it will save us all. Guess where that’s from? You got it right; Cultivating Humanity by Martha C. Nussbaum. Assigned reading for my English class - I love that boook. I love that class. I love all these classes. I was talking to a guy today from Woodbury and he thought I was being sarcastic when I said “I love that class.” I really do. Having fun and learning - holy crap!