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Week six ask three questions. What is community, what is government and is there individual responsibility to either? I’ll start with my readings from Western Vision and American Values.
I guess I wasn’t really ‘into’ this weeks readings. We started off talking about The kinds of leaders you could have one that was directed by God, one that was a bad leader looking out for self, on that was a good leader looking out for the greater community. Being a class about ‘the west’ we studied George Washington. Specifically a letter from Thomas Jefferson, The Character of George Washington. I found a few of the quotes interesting:
He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt,
His temper was naturally irritable
On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect,
Next we had to read about another kind of leader, Marin Luther King, Jr. Specifically his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. I really enjoyed one quote from this:
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
So a light week of a recap. I just wasn’t into this week, so my notes and recollections of it are not strong.
[Initially Written 2.14.2009]