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3 essays where bell hooks sits on the council. bell weighs in on self-determination, duty, loneliness. Read what bell would tell you.

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Ethics

When Is It Right to Choose Yourself Over Your Family?

De Beauvoir says the role was never the whole of you. Confucius says duties have real limits. hooks says love does not require your erasure. Three thinkers on the hardest version.

Simone de BeauvoirConfuciusbell hooksself-determinationduty

Relationships

What Do You Do When You Feel More Alone Inside the Relationship Than Outside It?

Three thinkers on loneliness inside love. Woolf says solitude has been taken from you. Rilke says two people cannot fill each other. hooks says love is an action, not just a feeling.

Virginia WoolfRainer Maria Rilkebell hookslonelinessintimacy

Relationships

How Do You Trust Someone Again After They've Hurt You?

Three thinkers disagree about rebuilding trust. Satir says start with yourself. Spinoza says understand the cause. bell hooks says love is a practice, not a feeling.

Virginia SatirBaruch Spinozabell hookstrustvulnerability

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Baruch Spinoza Confucius Rainer Maria Rilke Simone de Beauvoir Virginia Satir Virginia Woolf duty intimacy loneliness self-determination trust vulnerability

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