“To care about the public image of any virtue [...] is to limit your performance of that virtue to what all others already understand of it. Therefore those who would walk the Way of any virtue must first relinquish all desire to appear virtuous before others, for this will limit and constrain their understanding of the virtue. ”
Is it possible to quote this without being guilty of trying to foster the public image of not caring about public image? That’s a serious question; I had briefly updated the “Favorite Quotes” section of my Facebook before deciding the potential irony was too great. And does my feeling compelled to ask this have anything to do with the fact that I still don’t understand Löb’s theorem?
“To care about the public image of any virtue [...] is to limit your performance of that virtue to what all others already understand of it. Therefore those who would walk the Way of any virtue must first relinquish all desire to appear virtuous before others, for this will limit and constrain their understanding of the virtue. ”
Is it possible to quote this without being guilty of trying to foster the public image of not caring about public image? That’s a serious question; I had briefly updated the “Favorite Quotes” section of my Facebook before deciding the potential irony was too great. And does my feeling compelled to ask this have anything to do with the fact that I still don’t understand Löb’s theorem?