What is Value Finding a Grounding for Value is Hard – But Important The first, and in some ways, most difficult step in living according to our values is to get at least somewhat clear on just what we mean by value. We talk equally comfortably about the value of a piece of jewelry as about the value of putting in a hard day’s work, or even the values you were raised with. Obviously, there’s something in common between these usages, but when you try to rigorously break it down, you might run into problems. Is the “value” of a financial asset really the same thing as the “value” of…
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This site is called Rhetoric for the Renaissance Man, so in letting you know what we’ll be doing here, I thought it might help to start with what I mean by that title, then explain a bit about who this site might appeal to (and might not), who I am and what has driven me to put this together, and lastly, a brief overview of the kinds of things we’ll dive into as we go. Who Is the Renaissance Man? The Renaissance Man is both a figure of history, describing multi-talented figures like Leonardo Da Vinci, Giordano Bruno, John Dee, and others, but also an aspirational, iconic figure of today.…