BUS 303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Blaise Pascal, The Roots, Greasy Pole

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 303
• Professor: Kathleen Burke

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Both viewed critical persona decisions (defining moments) not as single separate events, but as most recent link in long chain of a person"s past. Nietzsche described person"s past as raw material that can be shaped to become who they are. A person"s feelings can actually help make sense of an issue, give shape to it, & indicate what the stakes really are. But not everything that is expressed in a feeling/intuition can be translated into precise objective terms. Blaise pascal: the heart has its reasons that reason does not know. Tracing roots means understanding their origins, evolution & importance in person"s life. Involves effort to understand which values & commitments have up to the present, defined a person"s moral identity. Place problems at hand in context of earlier defining moments in one"s life. Sometimes, it"s irresponsible to let commitments & ideals of past become prologue.