The FREEDOM of LIMITATIONS
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Most of us try to act ethically, drawing our standards from our social upbringing (The Ethic of Community), from our religions (The Ethic of Divinity), or from our own personal reasoning (The Ethic of Autonomy), but we don’t always agree on what’s right. In this pithy book that combines social commentary with both philosophy and psychology, Tony Annesi suggests that even if we cannot always bridge the gaps between our ethics, we can use both reason and rational self-interest to evaluate them.
CONTENTS
FOREWORD to the Preface to the Introductory Chapter …..
PREFACE: Les Miserables and Playboy …..
1. Introductory: Turn and Face the Strange …..
2. Foundations …..
3. A Moral Matrix …..
4. Spiritual But Not Religious …..
5. Manners: Low Level Ethics …..
6. Everyday Morality …..
7. The Big Issues …..
8. Underlying Issues …..
9. How Women Came to Rule the Western World …..
10. Ethics, 2 Sides of Aisle …..
11. Freedom and Commitment …..
12. A Few Suggestions …..
EPILOGUE: 5 Simple Prescriptions …..
BIBLIOGRAPHY …..
10 Common Values
To Unify a Contentious Culture
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What if the Left and the Right actually shared fundamental ideas and differed only in preferred implementation?
What if the circular scale we have been using to gauge points of view were really a straight line? What if we had a set of simple values to rally around? And what if you could find out all about how people could get together again in the pages of one little book?
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. TRUTH (Not Ideology) …..
2. FAIRNESS & JUSTICE (Not Religious Morality) …..
3. LIBERTY & EQUAL OPPORTUNITY (Not Equity of Results) …..
4. COMPETITION (Not Rapacity) …..
5. OWNERSHIP (Not Caretaker-ship) …..
6. SECURITY (Not Armoring) …..
7. INTELLIGENCE (Not Pseudo-intellectuality) …..
8. IMPROVEMENT & PROGRESS (Not Novelty) …..
9. LOVE, CHARITY, & SPIRITUALITY (Not Self-sacrifice) …..
10. INDIVIDUALITY & SELF-INTEREST (Not Greed) …..
POSTSCRIPT: TO UNIFY A CONTENTIOUS CULTURE …..
ADDENDA: 5 VALUES (that are) NO LONGER COMMON (but should be) …..
BIBLIOGRAPHY …..
10 Guideline Principles
Finding One's Way in a Messy World
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The old saying goes: “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” Unfortunately, in today’s messy world, the thing you stand for may be the very thing you have fallen for.
CONTENTS
My Guideline Principles…..
PREFACE: Why Guideline Principles?.....
INTRODUCTION: How I Came to Write a Book about Principles…..
TRUTH
Principle #1: Don’t Lie…..
Principle #2: Dare To Be Honest…..
Principle #3: Reframes Are Not Objective…..
COURAGE
Principle #4: Dare to Lose…..
Principle #5: What Could Have Been Couldn’t…..
INDEPENDENCE
Principle #6: Support, Don't Join…..
CONVENTIONS:
Principle #7: Test Conventions…..
EMOTIONS vs. RATIONALITY:
Principle #8: Look for a Core Belief…..
Principle #9: Rationality as a Guide for Action…..
BIAS:
Principle #10: The Smallest Minority…..
GUIDELINE PRINCIPLES: Points and Counterpoints…..
GUIDELINE PRINCIPLES: A Summation…..
BIBLIOGRAPHY…..
APPENDIX: Logical Fallacies…..
George Washington Carver’s 8 Rules…..
Lau-Tzu’s Advice…..
Hanshi Tony Annesi
• Advisory council, Nippon Kobudo Renmei (NKR)
• Steering Committee, International Society of Okinawan/Japanese Karate-do
• Member of 3 Martial Arts Halls of Fame
A martial artist since 1964
10th dan, Takeshin Aiki
10th dan, Takeshin Karate
6th Dan, Shotokan Karate
2nd dan, Judo
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