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Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in…

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Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of…
The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see…
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,…
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of…
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind…
'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and…
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. — Abigail Adams
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Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual… — Pope Pius XII

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