Lainey PettitinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Livelihood (Week 14)When reading the expert from Marsha Sinetar’s “Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow” this week, one paragraph specifically stuck out to…Apr 161Apr 161
Lainey PettitinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Wonder Vs. Awe (Week 13)I really appreciate Professor Helen de Cruz’s perspective of wonder and awe and their notable similarities and even more significant…Apr 121Apr 121
Lainey PettitinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Grace as a part of the Human Experience (Week 12)I found this particular quote from Bonhoeffer intriguing, “Human beings experience the divine grace that claims them. It is not human…Apr 41Apr 41
Lainey PettitinThe Good Life: Spring 2024self-worth = self-trust? (Week 9)I think that Emerson brings up so many interesting points in “Self Reliance,” but the thing I kept finding myself thinking about is how we…Mar 73Mar 73
Lainey PettitinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Tragic Optimism (Week 8)I think that in Victor Frankl’s “The Case for a Tragic Optimism,” he brings up quite a few thought processes that I align myself with. I…Feb 291Feb 291
Lainey PettitinThe Good Life: Spring 2024(Week 7) Education and “The Good Life”I find this week’s topic of education and “the good life” particularly intriguing, partly because of the obvious: I have been a student for…Feb 221Feb 221
Lainey PettitinThe Good Life: Spring 2024Thoughts on Macintaire’s thoughts (Week 5)I agree with Alasdair Macintyre that life would be so much simpler if there were laid out virtues that all of humanity could agree upon and…Feb 82Feb 82
