Eudaemonism

First known use 1827.A theory that the highest ethical goal is happiness and personal well being.
A system of ethics that evaluates actions in terms of their capacity to produce happiness.

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F: Filial Service

Filial: *Of relating to, or befitting a son or daughter: filial respect. Having or assuming the relationship of child or offpring to parent. **Genetics Of or relating to a generation or the sequence of generations from following the parental generation.   

Service

Verb 

1. Work done for others 

Filial Service: Work done for your family, especially your parents.

Literary Context (How does the Word Work):

He holds His position of sonship, and it has confirmed to Him as the reward of filial service.  (Edwards 9)

My Attempt: 

The filial ties in a family show the beauty of unconditional love. 

Hunt for Words: 

Found word in the commentary to the Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards.  The Community Bible Reading is currently reading Hebrews, starting today with Chapter One.   The use of old books, this book came out first in 1887-1888 is a great way to sharpen up one's vocabulary.   

Audio/Visual: Filial

Edwards, Thomas Charles D.D. The Epistle to the Hebrews   New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1887-1888.

Ee: Epitome

epitome

something representative as a fine example of the whole group of things to which it belongs. See also books.

See also: Representation

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Noun

1.

epitome - a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" prototype, paradigm, image example, model - a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his example" concentrate - a concentrated example of something; "the concentrate of contemporary despair" imago - (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood

Word in Context:


The individual, the personal, the concrete, as distinguished from, yet revealing in its fulness, the general, the universal--that is Mr. Browning's chosen subject-matter: "Every man is for him an epitome of the universe, a centre of creation." It is always the particular soul, and the particular act or episode, as the flower of the particular soul--the act or episode by which its quality comes to the test--in which he interests us. With him it is always "a drama of the interior, a tragedy or comedy of the soul, to see thereby how each soul becomes conscious of itself."

Qq: Quote Mine

The practice of quoting out of context, sometimes referred to as "contextomy" or "quote mining", is a logical fallacy and type of false attribution in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning.^{[1] (Wikipedia's Definition)}

Vv-Veracity:

n. pl. ve·rac·i·ties

1. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness. See Synonyms at truth.

2. Conformity to fact or truth; accuracy or precision: a report of doubtful veracity.

3. Something that is true.

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[Medieval Latin vrcits, from Latin vrx, vrc-, true; see veracious.]

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In Context:
As public interest was in question, and transatlantic communications suffered, their veracity could not be doubted.20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules

Solistitial

n.

1. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator. The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere occurs about June 21, when the sun is in the zenith at the tropic of Cancer; the winter solstice occurs about December 21, when the sun is over the tropic of Capricorn. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year and the winter solstice is the shortest.

2. A highest point or culmination.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin slstitium : sl, sun; see swel- in Indo-European roots + -stitium, a stoppage; see st- in Indo-European roots.]

The Sun Had first his precept so to move, so shine, As might affect the Earth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable, and from the North to call Decrepit Winter, from the South to bring Solstitial summers heat.Paradise Lost by Milton, John 

Solistitium Records a place where those Norweigen Metal Heads Rock Out:

Cc: Conduit

n

1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a pipe or channel for carrying a fluid

2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a rigid tube or duct for carrying and protecting electrical wires or cables

3. an agency or means of access, communication, etc.

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany a water-transporting element in a plant; a xylem vessel or a tracheid

5. a rare word for fountain

[from Old French, from Medieval Latin conductus channel, aqueduct, from Latin condūcere to lead, conduce]

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Dunbar's Number

150 is a special number for tribes. Our social networks can not surpass 150 people. What would be the response from a mega-church?

Dunbar's Number (Seth Godin's remarks on 150)

Hh- Honor:

n.

1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate.

2.

a. Good name; reputation.

b. A source or cause of credit: was an honor to the profession.

3.

a. Glory or recognition; distinction.

b. A mark, token, or gesture of respect or distinction: the place of honor at the table.

c. A military decoration.

d. A title conferred for achievement.

4. High rank.

5. The dignity accorded to position: awed by the honor of his office.

6. Great privilege: I have the honor to present the governor.

7. Honor Used with His, Her, or Your as a title and form of address for certain officials, such as judges and mayors: Her Honor the Mayor.

8.

a. Principled uprightness of character; personal integrity.

b. A code of integrity, dignity, and pride, chiefly among men, that was maintained in some societies, as in feudal Europe, by force of arms.

c. A woman's chastity or reputation for chastity.

9. honors Social courtesies offered to guests: did the honors at tea.

10. honors

a. Special recognition for unusual academic achievement: graduated from college with honors.

b. A program of advanced study for exceptional students: planned to take honors in history.

11. Sports The right of being first at the tee in golf.

12. Games

a. Any of the four or five highest cards, especially the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of the trump suit, in card games such as bridge or whist.

b. The points allotted to these cards. Often used in the plural.

tr.v. hon·ored, hon·or·ing, hon·ors

1.

a. To hold in respect; esteem.

b. To show respect for.

c. To bow to (another dancer) in square dancing: Honor your partner.

2. To confer distinction on: He has honored us with his presence.

3. To accept or pay as valid: honor a check; a store that honors all credit cards.

Idiom:

honor bound

Under an obligation enforced by the personal integrity of the one obliged: I was honor bound to admit that she had done the work.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin.]

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honor·er n.

Synonyms: honor, homage, reverence, veneration, deference
These nouns denote admiration, respect, or esteem accorded to another as a right or as due. Honor is the most general term: The hero tried to be worthy of the honor in which he was held.
Homage is often in the form of a ceremonial tribute that conveys allegiance: "There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Reverence is a feeling of deep respect and devotion: "Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man" (Ayn Rand).
Veneration is both the feeling and the reverential expression of respect, love, and awe: Her veneration for her mentor never wavered.
Deference is courteous, respectful regard for another that often implies yielding to him or her: The funeral was arranged with deference to the family of the deceased.

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The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre

"I have no seconds on my part, monsieur," said D'Artagnan; "for having only arrived yesterday in Paris, I as yet know no one but Monsieur de Treville, to whom I was recommended by my father, who has the honor to be, in some degree, one of his friends.

Dd: Dayyenu

Dayyenu

How can a Jew say, let alone sing, that "it would have been enough" even had we not received the Torah or Eretz Yisrael? Yet, every year at the Pesach seder this is the perplexing message we seemingly proclaim as we sing "Dayyenu!"

The answer is really quite simple. Within its context in the Haggadah, the refrain of "Dayyenu" has an implicit suffix - it does not mean 'it would have been enough;' rather, "Dayyenu" means 'it would have been enough to say Hallel for...' In this "piyut" which poetically summarizes the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim, we declare that each single act of God's kindness in that redemption process 'would have been enough' to obligate us to praise Him, i.e. to recite the Hallel.

In the Haggadah, we recite "Dayyenu" at the conclusion of magid, prior to mentioning "pesach, matzah and maror" (Rabban Gamliel omer...) and reciting of the Hallel. Mentioning these three mitzvot adjacent to the Hallel parallels the requirement to sing Hallel while eating the korban pesach during the time of the Temple. Thus, "Dayyenu" serves in the Haggadah as an introduction to the Hallel:

Had Hashem only taken us out of Egypt and not punished the Egyptians, that "would have been enough" to obligate us to say Hallel.
Had he split the sea for us but not given us the 'mahn,' this alone would have been sufficient reason to praise God.
And so on.

"Dayyenu" relates a total of fifteen acts of divine kindness, each act alone worthy of praise. Therefore, the Haggadah continues, "al achat kamah vekhamah," how much more so is it proper to thank God for performing all these acts of kindness. Thus, in the Haggadah, "Dayyenu" provides the proper perspective, and creates the appropriate atmosphere for the recitation of the Hallel.

When we recite the Hallel at the seder, we do so not only out of gratitude for Hashem's taking us out of Egypt, but also in appreciation of each stage of the redemptive process. As the "Dayyenu" emphasizes, we thank God not only for the exodus, but also for the 'mahn,' for shabbat, for coming close to Har Sinai, for the Torah, for the Land of Israel..., and finally for the building of the Bet HaMikdash.

Based on this understanding, the "Dayyenu" contains an underlying, profound hashkafah, a message very applicable to our own generation. Today, there are those who focus only on the first stanza of "Dayyenu," viewing freedom as the final goal, the ultimate redemption. For them, the first stanza of "Dayyenu" - the exodus - is "enough." Others focus only upon the last stanza, that without the realization of the idyllic goal of building the Mikdash, the entire redemptive process is meaningless. In their eyes, Hallel should be sung only when the redemption reaches its ultimate goal. "Dayyenu" disagrees - each stage of the process requires Hallel.

It is this hashkafic message, i.e., the understanding and appreciation of each step of the redemptive process, that "Dayyenu" teaches us. Ge'ulat Yisra'el - the redemption of Israel - is a process that is comprised of many stages. Every significant step in this process, even without the full attainment of the ultimate goal, requires our gratitude and praise to Hashem. In each stage of redemption, Am Yisra'el is required to recognize that stage and thank Hashem accordingly, while at the same time recognizing that many more stages remain yet unfulfilled. "Dayyenu" challenges us to find the proper balance.

[P.S. Save this shiur! You can 're-use' it for Yom Ha'Atzma'ut.]

Mm: Metaphysics

n.

1. (used with a sing. verb) Philosophy The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value.

2. (used with a pl. verb) The theoretical or first principles of a particular discipline: the metaphysics of law.

3. (used with a sing. verb) A priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment.

4. (used with a sing. verb) Excessively subtle or recondite reasoning.
5. Things that do not change over time. (Added by Gregory Rothbard)

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[From pl. of Middle English methaphisik, from Medieval Latin metaphysica, from Medieval Greek (ta) metaphusika, from Greek (Ta) meta (ta) phusika, (the works) after the Physics, the title of Aristotle's treatise on first principles (so called because it followed his work on physics) : meta, after; see meta- + phusika, physics; see physics.]

In Context:
Granted this horrible picture you have drawn, yet you must confess that metaphysics was inherently potent in so far as it drew humanity out of this dark period and on into the illumination of the succeeding centuries.The Iron Heel by London, Jack



Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Gg: Golden Mean-Golden Ratio

Golden Mean: In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. For example courage, a virtue, if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice.

In Context:
...the planets correlate with each other via simple mathematical relationships, but they also do so with an uncanny and profound association with various forms of The Golden Mean.

The Golden Mean or Golden Ratio is one of the most intriguing number in mathematics. It is commonly denoted by the Greek letter, phi, and is given in either to two forms by the equalities: F º 1.618033989... and f º 0.618033989... (where “...” means a continuation of the numbers -- See Transcendental Numbers). The Golden Mean was known to the ancients (and moderns), who considered these numbers so sacred that monuments from the Giza Pyramids and Greek Parthenon to Notre Dame Cathedral and the United Nations Building in New York City have been based on these fundamentals of Sacred Geometry.

Ff: Fractions

n.

1. Mathematics An expression that indicates the quotient of two quantities, such as ¹/₃ .

2. A disconnected piece; a fragment.

3. A small part; a bit: moved a fraction of a step.

4. A chemical component separated by fractionation.

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[Middle English fraccioun, a breaking, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin frcti, frctin-, from Latin frctus, past participle of frangere, to break; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.]

Word History: Our word fraction did not originally have a mathematical sense. It goes back ultimately to the Latin verb frangere, "to break." From the stem of the past participle frctus is derived Late Latin frcti (stem frctin-), "a breaking" or "a breaking in pieces," as in the breaking of the Eucharistic Host. In Medieval Latin the word frcti developed its mathematical sense, which was taken into Middle English along with the word. The earliest recorded sense of our word is "an aliquot part of a unit, a fraction or subdivision," found in a work by Chaucer written about 1400. One of the next recorded instances of the word recalls its origins, referring to the "brekying or fraccioun" of a bone.

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Ss: Sabbath

Sabbath is the day God puts his people back together again (from their chaotic worldy lives) into his own rightful image.

Ff: Future Shock

Future Shock is a book written by the sociologist and futurologist Alvin Toffler in 1970. It grew out of an article "The Future as a Way of Life" in Horizon magazine, Summer 1965 issue.^[1][2][3][4] The book has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely translated.
Toffler's shortest definition of future shock is a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time".

Pp: Propinquity Effect

propinquity

Noun

Formal nearness in time, place, or relationship [Latin propinquus near]

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The sense of the word "propinquity" as given here is a specialised one. For a more general definition of the word, see in the Wiktionary.

In social psychology, propinquity (from Latin propinquitas, nearness) is one of the main factors leading to interpersonal attraction. It refers to the physical or psychological proximity between people. Two people living on the same floor of a building, for example, have a higher propinquity than those living on different floors. Propinquity can mean physical proximity, a kinship between people, or a similarity in nature between things. Propinquity is also one of the factors, set out by Jeremy Bentham, used to measure the amount of pleasure in a method known as felicific calculus.

Propinquity effect

The propinquity effect is the tendency for people to form friendships or romantic relationships with those whom they encounter often. In other words, relationships tend to be formed between those who have a high propinquity. It was first theorized by psychologists Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt Lewin and Kurt Bach in what came to be called as the Westgate studies conducted at MIT (1950). The typical venn diagram used to represent the propinquity effect is shown below where U = universe, A = set A, B = set B, and S = similarity:



The sets are basically any relevant subject matter about a person, or persons, or non-persons, etc; depending on the context of the use of the word. Propinquity can be more than just physical distance. Residents of an apartment building living near a stairway, as an example, tend to have more friends from other floors than others. The propinquity effect is usually explained by the mere exposure effect, which holds that the more exposure a stimulus gets, the more likeable it becomes.

Hh: Henotheistic

henotheism

a belief in one suprème or specially venerated god who is not the only god. — henotheist, n.

See also: God and Gods

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For, if she was a witness for Christian agape, or selfless love, Hinduism was bearing witness that it is henotheistic, meaning that while it has its own belief system, it does not deny the truth of others.

CATHOLIC DIED A HERO TO NATION OF HINDUS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Pp: Protean Man

Proteus was a minor sea god in the court of Poseidon, who could readily adopt any form or guise he desired, but who found it impossible to maintain any particular identity or commitments. These types will plunge into a variety of faith experiences, but do not root themselves to one faith. (Postmodern Believers).