PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE

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PHILOSOPY OF LOVECLASS MEETING 2
PARAMETERS I MAKE ONLY THOSE AGREEMENTS THAT
I INTEND TO KEEP. I KEEP THE AGREEMENTS THAT I
MAKE. I ACKNOWLEDGE BROKEN AGREEMENTS AT THE
EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT. I GET RESULTS
(NOT REASONS).
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PARAMETER 5

• I TAKE CARE OF
• UNFINISHED BUSINESS (UFB).

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DEFINITION OF UFB

• ANYTHING THAT KEEPS ME FROM
• BEING 100 PRESENT
• AND PLAYING 100.

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WHERE TO LOOK FOR UFB

• FOUR STRESS QUESTIONS
• WHAT AM I SAYING THAT I DONT WANT TO SAY?
• WHAT AM I NOT SAYING THAT I DO WANT TO SAY?
• WHAT AM I DOING THAT I DONT WANT TO DO?
• WHAT AM I NOT DOING THAT I DO WANT TO DO?

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REVIEW

• THEME OF THE COURSE
• A HUMAN BEING HAS TO CHOOSE, WHAT MATTERS
• IS TO KNOW WHAT ONE WANTS. ANDRE GIDE
• LIFE IS ABOUT CHOICE.
• WHEN I CHOOSE -- SOME OPPORTUNITIES OPEN
  (PAYOFFS), SOME OPPORTUNITIES CLOSE (COSTS).
• THE ONLY GOOD REASON FOR BEING IN THIS COURSE
  YOU WANT WHAT THIS COURSE HAS TO OFFER.
• THEME OF MEETING 1 WHAT DO YOU WANT?

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REVIEW

• DEFINITION OF RELATIONSHIP
• I AM IN RELATIONSHIP WITH ANYONE
• I AM CONSCIOUS OF
• PRINCIPLE OF RELATIONSHIPS
• ALL RELATIONSHIPS ARE BASED ON AGREEMENTS
• AGREEMENTS
• CAN BE CONSCIOUS (STATED)
• OR UNCONSCIOUS (ASSUMED)
• OUR AGREEMENTS IN CLASS
• ARE STATED IN THE SYLLABUS, SCHEDULE,
• AND GROUND RULES

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REVIEW

• PAYOFFS FROM PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE
• COLLEGE CREDIT
• GOOD GRADE
• PROMISE OF THE COURSE
• THE INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCES
• OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE
• ARE SUFFICIENT TO CREATE
• A SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE SHIFT
• IN MY LIFE,
• MY ATTITUDES,
• AND MY RELATIONSHIPS.

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REVIEW

• COSTS OF PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE
• MONEY AND LOTS OF IT!
• SYLLABUS AGREEING TO HAVE
• THE COURSE RUN BY IT
• GROUND RULES GIVING YOUR WORD TO KEEP THEM

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REVIEW

• PARAMETERS
• I MAKE ONLY THOSE AGREEMENTS
• THAT I INTEND TO KEEP
• I KEEP THE AGREEMENTS THAT I MAKE
• I ACKNOWLEDGE BROKEN AGREEMENTS
• AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT

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REVIEW

• HOW GRADES ARE DETERMINED
• MY GRADE WILL NOT BE DETERMINED BY
• MY ASSESSMENT OF WHAT
• I GET OUT OF THE COURSE
• MY GRADE WILL BE DETERMINED BY
• HOW WELL I PERFORM
• THE COURSE REQUIREMENTS
• STATED IN THE SYLLABUS
• AND NOTHING ELSE

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REVIEW

• THIS COURSE
• WILL NOT BE WHAT I WANT IT TO BE
• WILL NOT BE WHAT I THINK IT SHOULD BE
• WILL ALWAYS BE EXACTLY WHAT IT IS
• . . . LIKE LIFE, OR REALITY

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PHILOSOPHY . . .

• ETYMOLOGICAL DERIVATION
• PHILO AND SOPHIA
• LOVE OF WISDOM

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PHILOSOPHY . . .

• DEFINITION
• PHILOSOPHY IS . . .
• THE EXAMINATION OF ASSUMPTION.

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ONTOLOGY . . .

• THE BRANCH OF PHILOSOPHY
• THAT INQUIRES INTO
• THE NATURE OF BEING
• WE WILL CONDUCT AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF
  HUMAN BEING.
• (THIS IS A COURSE IN ONTOLOGY.)

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EPISTEMOLOGY . . .

• THE BRANCH OF PHILOSOPHY THAT IS CONCERNED WITH
  TRUTH AND THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE

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EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONSERVATISM

• HOLDING STRICT STANDARDS
• FOR WHAT I AM WILLING
• TO STATE OR BELIEVE
• TO BE TRUE
• (i.e., high or exacting)

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LEARNING, KNOWLEDGE,AND WISDOM

• A DEFINITION OF LEARNING
• GOING FROM IGNORANCE
• TO UNDERSTANDING.

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DISTINCTION ABOUT KNOWLEDGE

• 1. WHAT I KNOW I KNOW
• WILL THIS COURSE BE ABOUT
• WHAT I KNOW I KNOW?

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I WILL BE AMAZED HOW MANY PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR
ONLY WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW OR WHAT THEY THINK
THEY KNOW.

• ONE OF THEM WILL PROBABLY BE ME.

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DISTINCTION ABOUT KNOWLEDGE

• 1. WHAT I KNOW I KNOW
• 2. WHAT I KNOW I DONT KNOW
• WILL THIS COURSE BE ABOUT WHAT I KNOW I DONT
  KNOW?

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DISTINCTION ABOUT KNOWLEDGE

• 1. WHAT I KNOW I KNOW
• 2. WHAT I KNOW I DONT KNOW
• 3. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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DISTINCTION ABOUT KNOWLEDGE

• 3.
• WHAT I DONT KNOW
• I DONT KNOW

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• THE COURSE WILL BE ABOUT WHAT I DONT KNOWI
  DONT KNOW.

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METHODS OF INSTRUCTION

• 1. INTELLECTUAL LEARNING
• (KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION, FACTS)
• THE ART OF LOVING
• and . . . ITS HOW YOU
  PLAY THE GAME
• LECTURE DISCUSSION
• WORLD VIEW
• 100 RESPONSIBLE (FOR EVERYTHING INLIFE)
• SOURCES STOICISM, EXISTENTIALISM, ZEN

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METHODS OF INSTRUCTION

• 2. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
• (WISDOM, DISTINCTIONS, APPLYING KNOWLEDGE)
• EXERCISES (GAMES)
• TEAM DISCOVERY

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METHODS OF INTRUCTION

• EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
• Dont Confuse Method with Content.
• (The games arent important
• the distinctions you learn
• from them are.)

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This Stuffis P.E.for your brain.
-- Michael Baker, poet
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THE GAME

• Seek, above all, for a game worth playing.
• Having found the game play it with intensity
  play as if
• your life and sanity depended on it. (They do
  depend on it.)
• Follow the example of the French existentialists
  and flourish
• a banner bearing the word "engagement." Though
  nothing
• means anything and all roads are marked no
  exit,
• yet move as if your movements had some purpose.
• If life does not seem to offer a game worth
  playing, then invent
• one. For it must be clear, even to the most
  clouded intelligence,
• that any game is better than no game.
• Robert
  S. DeRopp, The Master Game

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COACHING AND THE PROMISE OF THE COURSE

• To the extent that the members of the coaching
  staff are conscious, every interaction we have
  with you during the weeks of this course will be
  in service of your getting the promise of the
  course.

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COACHING AND THE PROMISE OF THE COURSE

• To the extent that you are conscious, it wont
  matter what the coaching staff does -- you will
  still get the promise of the course.

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COACHING AND THE PROMISE OF THE COURSE

• To the extent that the Universe is perfect, it
  wont matter whether you are conscious -- you
  will still probably get the promise of the
  course.
• Without your conscious cooperation, the process
  will take much longer and be much harder, but the
  Universe will not give up on you. It is the
  perfect teacher.

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PROMISE OF THE COURSE

• THE INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCES OF THE PHILOSOPY
  OF LOVE ARE SUFFICIENT TO CREATE A SIGNIFICANT,
  POSITIVE SHIFT IN MY LIFE, MY ATTITUDES, AND MY
  RELATIONSHIPS.

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MISGIVINGS

• ADVERSITY, ANNOYANCE, ANXIETY, APPREHENSION,
  COMPLAINTS, COMPLICATIONS, CONCERNS,
  CONSIDERATIONS, CONSTERNATIONS, DIFFICULTIES,
  DISCONTENT, DISTRESS, DISTRUST, DISTURBANCES,
  DOUBTS, DREAD, FEAR, FOREBODING, HESITANCY,
  INCONVENIENCE, INDECISIONS, IRRITATIONS,
  MISGIVINGS, OBJECTIONS, OBSTACLES, PREDICAMENTS,
  PROBLEMS, PROTESTS, QUALMS, QUANDARIES,
  QUESTIONS, RELUCTANCE, RESERVATIONS, SCRUPLES,
  SUSPICIONS, TENSIONS, TREPIDATIONS, TROUBLES,
  UNCERTAINTIES, UNEASINESS, UNREST, VACILLATIONS,
  WAVERINGS, WORRIES

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• I DONT WANT TO MAKE THIS
  
  AGREEMENT BECAUSE . . .
• I DO WANT TO MAKE THIS
  AGREEMENT BECAUSE . . .

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END OF INTRODUCTIONTO THEPHILOSOPHY OF LOVE

• . . . And time to constitute our team.