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Michael Schur

  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
    —MAYA ANGELOU
  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    What the hell am I supposed to do?
    This question—how can we live a more ethical life?—has plagued people for thousands of years
  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    here’s some good news: Philosophers have been thinking about those exact questions for a very long time. They have answers for us—or, at least, they have ideas that may help us formulate our own answers
  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    four simple questions
  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    Nearly every single thing we do has some ethical component to it, whether we realize it or not. That means we owe it to ourselves to learn what the hell ethics is and how it works, so we don’t screw everything up all the time
  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    learning to accept failure—or really, to embrace it—as a necessary and beneficial by-product of our efforts to try, learn, and improve
  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    Try again. Fail again. Fail better
  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    Virtue ethicists define good people as those who have certain qualities, or “virtues,” that they’ve cultivated and honed over time, so that they not only have these qualities but have them in the exact right amount
  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    We are all highly individualized products of both nature and nurture
  • Ro Delgadillo Martinezhas quoted2 years ago
    His most important work on the subject is called the Nicomachean Ethics, named either in honor of his father, Nicomachus, or his son, Nicomachus, or I suppose possibly a different guy named Nicomachus that he liked better than either his dad or his kid
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