Things Everyone Obeys And No One Wrote Down

Things People Do Without Being Told

Accumulate Weight

Are Better When Shared

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Arrive Before You're Ready

Become Heavier Over Time

Change Hands

Change Meaning Depending On Who Holds Them

Collect Around A Person

Collect Around Success

Convert Action Into Consequence

Create Commitment

Create Identity

Exist Mostly In Consequence

Exist To Be Carried

Feel Heavier Than They Look

Feel Heavy In Your Hands

Gather Around Success

Harden Reality

Have To Be Carried Across

Make You Who You Are

Need Boundaries

Only Get Noticed When They Break

Outlive Excitement

Quietly Measure Character

Quietly Shape Identity

Things You Can Actually Choose

responsibility

depression

napping

adulting

complete mess

competence

office work

job interview

overwork

duty

procrastination

cooking

dinner

motherhood

efficiency

laziness

work

ADHD

ancestor

generation

predecessor

descendant

society

is like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

is marked by the absolute singularity of responsibility to the other and is not associated with a behavior publicly and rationally justifiable by general principles.

In this period, the founder of deconstruction turns his attention to ethical themes. In particular, the theme of responsibility to the other (for example, God or a beloved person) leads Derrida to leave the idea that responsibility is associated with a behavior publicly and rationally justifiable by general principles. Reflecting upon tales of Jewish tradition, he highlights the absolute singularity of responsibility to the other.' (')

is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

is political presence rather than legal or moral presence.

Hannah Arendt defined responsibility in terms of political presence, not in legal or moral terms' (Herzog Studies in Social and Political Thought Page 39).

 shows a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

is action's source. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

is difficult. Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.

Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves. -English

responsibility, n.All

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