1. Set your alarm for 5 minutes and see if you can sit quietly with your eyes closed and
focus on your breath.
2. In virtue ethics, one question we ask is—what is your Ultimate Telos? What is that
toward which your entire being is ultimately oriented? Do you think that you have an
ultimate Telos? What do you think your ultimate orientation in life is?
3. What are your proximate ends? What are those things toward which you have goals
and work toward?
4. What habits do you have throughout each day?
5. What telos do your habits lead you to?
6. What habits would you like to establish?
7. How would you go about establishing different habits if you wanted to have a
particular ultimate telos?
8. What virtues do you practice regularly? Think of a couple of examples.
9. What virtues would you like to cultivate? How could you cultivate them?
10. What is one habit that would lead you to virtue that you could begin cultivating?
11. Set your alarm for 3 minutes and see if you can sit quietly with your eyes closed and
focus on your breath.
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