My human nature is to become, and I have freedom to choose the ends towards which I become

To become more than I am now, I should look outside to the people and traditions around me, and grow in their guidance

I should live by a highest good, which will be the north star that makes sense of my life

Rules don’t work in ethics because context rules; instead, to act right, I should imitate the best person I know and be that person

When two moral positions clash, look for a higher unity above both, where you and me can trust in our mutual ability to trust

My identity is a living construct made within my community; I become me when talking with you

I live in the gaze of other people; my best response is to accept gaze, be the best person I can, and relate as Thou when possible

I have free-will over who I want to become, and this, my choice of highest good, controls all my other choices, because the end controls the means

Virtue is mind and body together; by doing virtuous acts and creating virtuous habits, I wire my corporeal self into virtue

Instead of denying them, we must train our sexual and violent natures to higher goods

The answer to the secular why? is aesthetic beauty… but there’s more out there than beauty: there’s a God who knows my name

The monomaniacal ambivalence of Charlie Brown: it’s not easy living up to the standard of my highest good; I’m always fallen