self-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 can be expected to find our self-trust in a world that is so focused on conformity.

All About Love

In Bell Hooks book titled “All About Love,” she makes a very compelling statement. This statement is “Love and abuse cannot coexist” (p.g. 6). Love is characterized by respect, care, and support. On the other hand, abuse involves manipulation, control, and harm. In any relationship, whether romantic…

“Inter-be.”

When we say a cup is empty, the cup must be there in order to beempty. When we say that we are empty, it means that we must bethere in order to be empty of a permanent, separate self.

For me, the word emptiness means nothingness. However, Thich Nhat Hanh explains, “emptiness does…

Week 11

Love is a very complex concept. It is hard to define, mostly because it means something different to each and every one of us. This can be linked to how we were introduced to “love,” and what that meant to us. For some, it can be hard to experience love, specifically due to these past experiences. Even so, people…

Love as a form of communication

Love (Week 11)

In “Clarity: Give Love Words” it is written, “To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients- care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communitcation.” (Page 5). Before reading…

Week 11: Love as an Action and Not a Feeling

On page 13 of Bell Hooks’ writing, she states, "we are often taught we have no control over our “feelings”. Yet most of us…accept that our actions have consequences”. Hooks also mentions that love should be thought about as an action rather than a…

How does non-attachment effect us?

In Buddhism they believe to truly be enlightened one must be able to detach from all worldly things, but how effective is this virtue when it is actually acted out. Non-attachment can help relieve stress from people’s lives as they can free themselves from worrying…

Blog 9

On page 215 it says that virtues are in the popular estimate rather than exception than the rule. They separate man and their actions. The part that caught my eye was where it said men do good deeds for courage or charity. If you read more, you understand that the point that is trying to get across is that some…

Week 10 blog

In this week’s reading, The Ethics Of Authenticity by Charles Taylor, this quote really stuck out to me.

“we define this always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the identities our significant others want to recognize in us. And even when we outgrow some of the…

The Ethics of Authenticity (week 10)

“So the contribution of significant others, even when it occurs at the beginning of our lives, continues throughout. some people might be following me up to here, but still want to hold on to some form of the monological ideal. True, we can never liberate ourselves…