Today in class we continued the PowerPoint Excellence. When we started talking about the vocabulary words, the one that stuck with me the most was slipshod. This was probably because of the word were it may have originated from, shod. When a horse has it's shoe put on it has been shod. If the job was done poorly the shoe could slip off. This could be a major problem since the horse could hurt itself without the shoe. For the horse's shoe to be put on so poorly that they slip off the person putting them on has to be extremely careless. Slipshod is define by careless and lackadaisical. I thought that was interesting how the two words in the whole word relate to the meaning of the whole word.
The other thing we discussed in class today is how advanced the human species is. In that we learned about areté. Areté is the fullest potential one has. The highest human potential is knowledge. On top of that the highest human knowledge is knowledge about knowledge. Kind of confusing if you ask me. In my opinion areté is a very helpful philosophy and more people should know about it.
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