I jumped on the peace train in 1969 during the Vietnam War and have never given up the dream. Unfortunately, the Industrial Revolution introduced mustard gas in the First World War and from then on has gotten increasingly sinister…
Proactive: serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or challenging one; anticipatory. For most of us who are not controllers of significance, how can we be proactive?
Fallibilism is the view that we as human beings can never be in the position of acquiring ultimate truth, there is always a chance for discovering that we were in error. Walter Kaufman proposed having strong beliefs, held loosely…
To judge or appraise by comparison with something or someone else. Protagoras, in the Platonic dialogs, puts forth that “man (you) are the measure of all things.”
There’s a notion that in classical times everyone is basically on the same page, orderly, and in times of what Jacques Barzun calls ‘Decadence’, there is no common thread among people, more chaotic.
Repetitions, what primarily athletes refer to as repeating an action to perfect it. This is particularly a concern magnified by William James that there is practically nothing more important than developing good habits.
Auto, from the Greek ‘Autos’ meaning ‘self’. So an automobile is a self moving mobile, autonomous is self governing and an autobiography is a self-written life story. My first auto in…
Adjective as in deep in thought. Introspective, meditative, pensive, reflective, and thoughtful. Do we even have or find the time, place and space to engage in pondering?
The choicest or best of anything considered collectively, especially of a group or class of people. So imagine if we viewed the totality of humans to be elite and avoided sub classifications…
Joyful being the best i can be! Here understanding joy as being beyond the duality of pleasure and pain. Joy is like bliss, a transcendent state independent of our temporary bodily existence.