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“Persons who aim their own lives in the right direction cannot help benefiting others and the society in which they live.

OHHHH we’ve hit moral virtue, this is so exciting!

On needs and wants, and how Aristotle says all humans desire the same good life in that it is a plan that involves us seeking and acquiring all things that are REALLY good for us to have. The presence of apparent goods is why the same right plan for life looks different to people living the same objective good life of acquiring natural good that are inherent to all. Interesting and challenging thoughts.

I generally dislike self-improvement and/or books on work culture/efficiency. But I’ve heard good things about Cal Newport and this book is about how modern knowledge work efficiency is broken and stupid. So I thought might as well hear him out!

“Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to living in such a way that it is impossible to determine the line of demarcation.” - Aristotle 🔥

Super interesting, I’m finding out how little I have looked at humanity through a philosophical perspective just after a few chapters

“There are two kinds of knowledge about Christ: the speculative and the practical. The former is obtained by study, the latter only through the Holy Spirit, Who leads us to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior.” (P. 118)

“As the scientist learns the secrets of nature by being passive before it, so we learn the mysteries of our High Priest by being passive before him” - Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen (pg 53)

SOOO GOOD!!

Rather than finish the books I already am reading, why not start another!