Impromptu Notebook

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Nike

Just do it

Immanual kant

His fundamental critical philosophy is human autonomy

Human understanding is the source of the general laws of nature.

Human reasoning give itself the moral law- Basis of freedom and immortality

Justice, values, family, love, emotion, and logic are universal principles

Will power Immanual Kant

The will is what drives our actions and grounds the intention of our act.

Friedrich nietzche meaning

that individuals create their own meaning and purpose in a fundamentally meaningless universe, asserting that "existence precedes essence

Friedrich nietzche without meaning say

God is dead and we have killed him

Who is friedrich nietzsche

19th cent. german philo with ideologies of life. Some times dark but straightforward and honest

Aristotle who?

300 bc greek philospher

Aristotle happines

the ultimate goal of life—what he called eudaimonia, often translated as “flourishing.”

Aristotle friendship

Nicomachaen Ethics, He identified three kinds of friendship: of utility (for advantage), of pleasure (for enjoyment), and of virtue (based on mutual goodness). The last is the best

Utility, Pleasure, Virtue

What is philosophy? 

reasoned pursuit of fundamental truths, a systematic study of ideas

What is ethics?

Moral Philosophy, a reasoned pursuit of doing the right thing

Aristotle community

Common good is essential for ones happiness and a healthy society

Aristotle determination

phronesis (practical wisdom), which helps people know how to act rightly in difficult situations.

Courage and perseverance were seen as “golden means”

Living by values is about habit

Miroslaw Volf who?

Personal growth author of life worth living and uni professor at yale

Volf and joy

 true joy comes not from achievement alone but from being reconciled with others

volf and determination

Perseverance is a way of ending suffering, with trust renewal and change is possible. It is grounded in faith of a better world

Volf and Values

Values and virtues like forgiveness, love, justice is shaped not only by reason but by love and transcendence. (Experience and thinking beyond a physical level)

Edison

I have not failed, I have just found 1000 ways that don’t work, lightbulb

Kung fu panda

Obtains inner peace

Henrietta Lacks

• Diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951
  
  Lacks' cervical cancer cells, called “HeLa” after the first two letters of her first and last name, are immortal, continuing to divide when most cells would die.
  
  George otto grey:First immortal cell line- Helped with polio vaccine and cancer treatments
  
  Meaningless person: Poor African American who shared land with slaves

Cassius Marcellus Clay who?

Military officer and former United States Ambassador to Russia (Early 1800s).

Cassius Marcellus Clay WHAT?

as an adult, Clay freed his family's slaves and founded an influential anti-slavery newspaper.

Mob destroyed his print shop, 6 men attacked him after his speech about slavery.

Clay's message even influenced Abraham Lincoln.

encouraging Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Cassius Clay Was An Abolitionist Who Pressured Lincoln Into Ending Slavery