...it takes a lot of self-love and presumption to have such esteem for one's own opinions that to establish them one must overthrow the public peace and introduce so many inevitable evils, and such a horrible corruption of morals...and introduce them into one's own country.
7-8-25: A is A Love, Daddy. My father loved quoting Aristotle and this one was a constant. So in honor of his upcoming birthday , he would have been 89 if he were still alive, I had my existing tattoo enhanced and his birth month flowers, water lily and larkspur, added. I love you Daddy, always💖📖💖
My family (spouse, kids, me) have been meeting up every evening for nearly 15 years to each share 1 thing we're grateful for, 1 thing we're sorry about, and 1 thing we intend for the next day. Recently we've added 1 thing we learned that day and an excerpt from the tagged. It's been helping all of us to reflect, like the Stoics, on what is in our control vs what isn't and to try to put our energy into the former.
#mentalhealthmonday @Kerrbearlib
pickIt does what it says on the tin, with a first chapter on Hobbes's life and times putting him in his intellectual context, followed by an exploration of his thought, and then how some other philosophers have reacted to him.
The first chapter was interesting and easy to follow but I did struggle a bit more with the second and third chapters.
No one dies before his time. The time you leave behind was no more yours than that which passed before your birth...wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
(from "That to philosophize is to learn to die", Book I, Essay 20)
Hope consists in asserting that despair is not the last word.
— Gabriel Marcel, Homo Viator
...let us learn to meet [death] steadfastly and combat it...to begin to strip it of its greatest advantage against us...let us rid it of its strangeness, come to know it, get used to it...and let us never allow ourselves to be so carried away by pleasure that we do not sometimes remember in how many ways this happiness of ours is a prey to death...it is uncertain where death awaits us; let us await it everywhere.
