i. My Mission Statement

"A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life."

--Stephen Covey (1932 CE – 2012 CE) “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”,

YouTube Play List for My Mission Statement

My Philosophical Analysis of the Mission Statement Play List

What is Egoism? (Philosophical Positions) -- Length: 6:22

This video defines the Ego effect on my character. My Ego is more in line with Ethical Egoism. My actions are done by a ethical judgment of what is best or virtuously good and God like.

Ethical Egoism Lecture -- Length: 29:15

This video attempts to explain the Ethical Egoism type of individual. I attempt to see my life as an Ethical Egoist. I feel it is best to be mindful of the Common Good. If you concentrate on being alturist you enslave yourself to the will of others. I believe it is a better world, if I teach like Christ did and stand up for the virtuous constitutional rights of others, but I must benefit the most in the doing or it is not worth the effort. I find unethical (lacking virtue) hedonism to be repulsive and the wrong view of Eudiamonia! I am altruistic up to a point, but altruism is the antithesis of Ethical Egoism. I'm not a selfish person, I am not a pessimist nor a narcissist.

The Fundamentals of Ethics - Chapter 8: Ethical Egoism -- Length: 28:39

This video attempts a more academically refined rhetorical argument for Ethical Egoism. This video helped me to define moralistically what my referee Super Ego should accept as a good moral virtue. However, there are times when the will has been weakened thinking of selfishly of an anti-altruistic transcendental nature, and the 'ID' must be satisfied. I look to Maslow for my hierarchy of needs and if helping you violates my basic needs, such as life, I will not help you. The reality is that I am left to push that heavy bolder up the hierarchy mountain of needs just like Sisyphus without any assistance from you, and you have gained in power over me, because I loose precious time and now must struggle in painful missery to transcend from your hold of dominance. I have a fundament need for companionship, however I don't need a hedonistic narcissist to inflict pain on me! How much of an honest friend are you?

MISSION STATEMENT:

To create a friendly independent society of flourishing EUDIAMONIA with subgroups of longest-lived loving youthful soulmates and with democratically unified tribal needs within the boundaries of the United States! The stoic intellectual adherence to the development of virtue ethics which governed by a secular, naturalistic hierarchy of self-sovereigns. An actual Rousseau-like state of nature. This project is conceptually named: "Angie's Garden."

"The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure."

─John Stuart Mill (1863) "Utilitarianism"

Concisely Clarified using Highlighted Defining Links

Emotionally, my enlightened personality is driven towards being that virtuous sage spoke of in antiquity (Ancient Greek Philosophy), and I believe as my moral exemplar, Socrates, did that, "I know that I know nothing!" I also seek to achieve that golden mean of moderation (a Goldilocks state of whole health). However, I must apologetically use Persuasive Rhetoric to attract an audience which is indicative of a loathsome paradox! This makes me cringe!

Eudaimonia is a lifestyle where an individual develops a good life in which happiness ensues meaning!

Goals for creating a Tranquility of a Eudiamonic Lifestyle

Focus intently on what is Natural & Necessary.
Stop pursuing sources of pain & disquietude (fame, wealth, etc...)
Bring friends into your life more.
Work is fine as long as you see value in it.
Self-discipline is necessary.

(The Idealistic Eudiamonic Flourishing of Epicureanism)

If you study what Psychologists see as the personality, you may adopt Freud's thinking about my EGO. and in this, you may find me to have a close alignment with philosophical egoism! Altruism is the opposite of egoism; however, a sage following virtue ethics must always concentrate his actions on the Common Good rather than have a pessimistic outlook toward the needs of others (an Empathically shaped constitution).

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