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Life’s Purpose

Life’s Purpose March 4th 2025 I believe that people are suffering today, like in any other era, due to entirely preventable reasons. And I believe that the vast majority of human beings have the power within themselves to take action and improve their life. I do not believe that everything Read more…

By Masako, 2 monthsDecember 25, 2025 ago
Photo of the viewpoint at Cabo Da Roca, Portugal
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To Know the Reason Why

To Know the Reason Why Nov – Dec 2025 We human beings often choose to act simply because we cannot immediately think of a reason not to. Yet thoughtlessness is not clarity, and the absence of a ‘No’ is not the presence of ethical permissibility. Acting without a reason is Read more…

By Masako, 3 monthsDecember 15, 2025 ago
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the big-container-ed person

As always, I write for myself, but if this helps anyone, that would of course make me smile. The trigger of these thoughts is a conversation with a professor I admire. She asked me why I became so attracted to Aristotle as a freshman at Princeton. to strive for a Read more…

By Masako, 3 yearsJanuary 9, 2023 ago
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Collective Responsibility: An Infographic

Post by Melanie Berman & Masako Toyoda. Collective Guilt vs. Collective Responsibility. Photo: Hannah Arendt & Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)

By Masako, 6 yearsJune 7, 2020 ago
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On Intelligence

My preliminary thoughts on in what Intelligence consists. Photo of Hope.

By Masako, 6 yearsApril 18, 2020 ago
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2020.03.18. On ‘hate’, ‘evil’, words. Dante’s Inferno, Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’.

Thoughts on a conversation with my friend discussing ‘hate’, ‘evil’, Dante’s Inferno and Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem. Photo of Hannah Arendt, a role model for me.

By Masako, 6 yearsMarch 20, 2020 ago
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Ode from Oscar

One of my best friends, Oscar, who I have known for now over five years since our first semester at Princeton, wrote an ode to me 🙂

By Masako, 6 yearsNovember 13, 2019 ago
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2019.08. Panos

The wonderful, kind man I randomly met on the first day of my Greece trip, 2019!

By Masako, 6 yearsSeptember 15, 2019 ago
Telos

One of the key parts to living a full, harmonious, and great life – according to Aristotle – is to become an excellent human being. What does it mean to be an excellent human being? To have developed your rationality in line with truth and to have developed the virtues of prudence, generosity, courage, honesty, wit, friendliness, temperance, and magnanimity. Which ones are you working to develop?

Eudaimonia

Commonly translated as "happiness", it's helpful to think of this as 'flourishing', 'thriving', or 'living your best life'. "Eu" is good and "daimon" is a god/spirit that watches over you. So if you live a eudaimonic life, the gods/spirits are watching over your life well :)


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