I hope you enjoy reading my thoughts and wonderings as I continue to learn…
I keep coming back this quote by Martha Nussbaum during the most meaningful times in life. I hope you find it as helpful as I do:
That I am an agent, but also a plant; that much that I did not make goes towards making me whatever I shall be praised or blamed for being; that I must constantly choose among competing and apparently incommensurable goods and that circumstances may force me to a position in which I cannot help being false to something or doing some wrong; that an event that simply happens to me may, without my consent, alter my life; that it is equally problematic to entrust one’s good to friends, lovers, or country and to try to have a good life without them–all these I take to be not just the material of tragedy, but everyday facts of lived practical reason
-Martha Nussbaum
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy