Themes, two talks, first by Gregory Sadler on what kind of moral theory it is, and some other stuff. Second by Irfan Kawaja on physical appearance and moral character. However, we begin with Gregory Sadler from Marist College. Gregory, if you come forward, and his title again is what kind of moral theory does an ensemble hold? And we have, what, 45 minutes to read papers, so you can get up to questions and that. So, we're going to make some jibes back and forth about Benedictines and Franciscans. Today is actually the feast of St. Anselm, so I'm very happy to be giving the paper on his feast day. Anselm of Canterbury, famous to philosophy for his so-called ontological argument, is less well known for his moral theory. Equally worthy of attention, revealing itself to a tent of study that's surprisingly rich and original. What I intend this paper to do is to set out some main lines of Anselm's moral theory, motivated by providing an answer to the question, what kind of moral theory does Anselm hold? Can we effectively locate it under rubric typically disgusting contemporary classes in literature, like utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and the like? Or does it collectively fuse together elements or aspects of such moral theories? Or is it perhaps sui generis defying any such categorization, perhaps challenging the adequacy of such classificatory schemes? Two obstacles block the path to providing answers to these questions. One of these is the unsystematic nature of Anselm's moral thought as preserved in writing, which he never consolidated into a treatise resembling Aristotle's Nick and McCain Ethics or Connors' Groundwork. So, one must weave together threads running through his treatises, the letters, the Vita, the dicta ansami, even his prayers and meditations in order to generate a full view of his moral theory. There is, however, one central point around which the many aspects of his moral theory constellate. One concept and experience that is rectitude or rightness of will kept for its own sake, which, as Dam Kushe observed, appears alongside Id Qomayas Kogitari in a protest as one of St. Anselm's most central thoughts. You see this as we go through his works reoccurring. But this formula requires considerable unpacking and specification, which one needs to do following lines Anselm himself set out, again, in multiple and unpredictable locations. So the first part, categories of the good. One central aspect to any moral theory involves the basic good or goods the theory recognizes and values. What does it hold to be good? How does it order or arrange goods in relation to each other? What good, if any, does it ascribe priority to as the most valuable, as fundamental, even as the basis of other goodnesses? Anselm's works contain numerous recognitions of references to and distinctions between a surprisingly broad and rich variety of goods. Can we reduce these to some sort of general classification? In the monologian he says to himself, you are accustomed to consider nothing good except on account of some usefulness or on account of some intrinsic goodness, giving health and what conduces to health as examples of the former and beauty and what contributes to beauty of the latter. All goods in this view are either useful goods that is valuable and typically willed for the sake of something else or intrinsic, hynestum, goods, valuable and willed for their own sakes or on their own accounts. The monologian treatment also introduces several other important Anselmian doctrines, including the notion of distinctively different degrees as opposed to mere quantities of goodness or greatness, reflected not only in subjective evaluations, but objectively in the very being of things. He argues for an ontological dependency of goods on other goods, ultimately on the divine goodness, which later retells this as a dynamic unity of whatever it is better to be than not to be, including supreme wisdom, truth, goodness, beauty, greatness and justice among the other divine attributes. Just as importantly, he accords to reason not only a capacity to discern between and order goods and values, but also a normative requirement to employ this capacity rightly. He says, for a rational nature, being rational is nothing other than being able to distinguish the just from the non-just, the true from the non-true, the good from the non-good, and the more good from the less good. Ultimately, this apprehension of values assumes not only cognitive or inferential, but also affective and cognitive forms. Already in Anselm's earliest work, we glimpse the human being as called to distinguish and act upon their distinctions between different kinds and degrees of goodness, understanding and framing these perhaps by reference to a divine source and exemplar of goodness. So what additional lighter clarity do his subsequent works bring? Skipping over to David Etate for the moment, in David Etate, the distinction between goods willed for the sake of other things and goods willed for their own sakes gets revisited, framed in terms of whether one can will something unwillingly, in some respects, that is, whether one can have a will divided against itself and over several objects. Anselm uses health as an example of a good will for its own sake with drinking absinthe, which we probably wouldn't associate with health these days, but they did back then, as something willed for the sake of health, indicating that something like health might be regarded in certain situations, or by some persons, as an intrinsic good, by others as merely useful or instrumental. Considering a forced choice between willing the end of keeping rectitude of will or willing to preserve one's life or safety, Anselm introduces another important consideration, the unavoidable necessity to choose between different goods, to order them to prefer and to prioritize a theme he expands in the Daghasu family. Anselm introduces further refinements bearing on goods and the will in that work, most notably by distinguishing between two fundamental and determinative orientations of the human, or any other rational beings, royal angels, fallen angels, any other conceivable rational beings, the will to happiness and the will to justice. In later works, Anselm consistently refers to these as inclinations or dispositions of the will, affectiones distinguishable from the will as instrument, as well as the particular willings as use of that instrument, which are conditioned by these wills as inclinations. The will to justice can be lacking or present in a person, but the will to happiness is always present and active, although not always specifically configured in the same way. The will to happiness, he says, is a natural will for avoiding the detrimental and for having the beneficial. This involves willing those things and conditions which one considers in some way to be beneficial to oneself, willing happiness and to be happy, and whatever is regarded as conducive or necessary to realizing such desires. A thing may be beneficial in different ways. One thing is beneficial, he says, through its use or when used, another through what it brings about, still another through both. The category of the beneficial thus almost entirely encompasses the previous distinction between useful goods, valued for the sake of other goods, and intrinsic goods, valued for their own sakes. I had that qualifier almost, because although the category of the beneficial includes the entirety of the useful, a portion of intrinsic goods fall within another distinct category, the good of justice. So this is the second part. For Anso, justice is a different, higher, more valuable kind of good than the others which we've explored thus far. Justice in the full and primary sense of the term, rightness or moral goodness, the justice which, as he says, should be praised and whose opposites should be condemned, the justice which is, quote, that very good through which people are good, and an account of which the will is said to be good or just, exists or does not, is present or absent, within the will of a rational being. Correspondingly, he says, injustice is that very evil which we say is nothing other than privation of the good, or as he adds, the absence of a justice that has been abandoned. Since other than justice or injustice, nothing is called just or unjust except for the will, or on account of the just or unjust will, the justice or injustice, the specifically moral goodness or badness of other things including, these are examples he uses, actions, hearts, persons, states of affairs, even the kernel appetites, resides not in them, but it derives from the will's relation to them. Justice in Anso's thought is a specific modality of goodness a rational will can possess, a goodness qualitatively greater than the goodness of beneficial goods, and thus to be preferred to, valued more highly than merely beneficial goods or even a happiness. In fact, a rational being ought to have justice in its will, and insofar as it lacks justice, it is to that degree or in that way unjust, not as it should be, not as it was meant to be. There's a language that Anso muses constantly, it's the notion of deborah. The rational being received a free faculty of will precisely for the purpose he says, of willing what one should with it, that is justice and justly. But then what is justice? Adequally answering this from an Anselmian perspective requires a step by step process of setting up formulations which integrate with each other. One first step is to say that justice is doing or willing what one ought to, that is willing to act in accordance with some sort of identifiable rule or standard applying to the situation or to use the alternative formulation Anselm employs, what is fitting? Setting aside for the moment the issue of precisely how one determines what one ought to do or will, one can ask is Anselm has a student doer the day very tante, is this all there is to justice? Following a set of rules or commands, willing to do the right thing in the situation, and the answer is alone for Anselm. In order to be just, one must not only will the right thing, but also will it because of one should, or more simply expressed because one should. The reason why one will something matters. If one were to will what is right solely because of the apprehension desire and pursuit of production of the beneficial, like a dog for instance, he uses this example, loving his puppies through instinct there is no justice in the willing or action, although there is to be sure goodness. If one wills and does what is right out of vain glory or simply to avoid punishment, again at least in day very tante in the person's will there is thereby no actual justice one must will the right thing as the right thing because it is the right thing, not because of beneficial goods or happiness one also necessarily desires and wills. Anselm seems as intransigent and uncompromising as content at this point. When one wills justly, one wills he says rectitude of will kept for its own sake, which is in fact his definition of justice. Whatever other objects the will may have or desire it must also intend this one, or justice is lacking in the person who is willing. Often there exist compatibilities between these motivations of happiness or beneficial goods and the motivation of justice. In fact the well-ordered person he says, the will to justice tempers the will to happiness restraining the will's excesses, but there will also be incompatibilities, occasions where one must choose according priority either to happiness or benefit or to justice one at the expense of the other. In fact the object of the will to justice as Anselm tells us at multiple points by its nature involves an interesting and sometimes even puzzling self-referentiality he says by contrast to the will which is towards willing the beneficial, which is not the same thing that it wills the will which is towards willing rectitude is rectitude for nobody wills rectitude without having rectitude nor can someone will it unless by rectitude bringing God into the picture adds another dimension to Anselm's conception of justice. This enrichment or complication of his moral theory, depending on how you look at it, is inevitable for two main reasons. First is noted earlier Anselm's ontology including even the being of values is decidedly theocentric.  All other instances of justice in some way participating in the divine justice. So presumably any justice in the human being or will is going to involve some eventual reference to God. Second Anselm does in fact explicitly specify justice in relation to God at so many points in his works that I'm only going to provide a few representative passages. He says keeping rectitude of will for the sake of that very rectitude is for each person to will what God wills that person to will. Rather convoluted when you first hear it. There's a lot of wills in that sentence. Every rational will of the creature he says should be subject to the will of God. That one's a bit more straightforward. Every rational creature pose that obedience to God. Rectitude of well is present in someone when that person wills what God wills them to will. Again, the repetition of that. It's not only that, he also has to, he expresses this in terms of affections or emotions. Those who fill their hearts with love of God and neighbor will nothing but what God wills for another person wills as long as this is not contrary to God. So these are all ways of expressing the determinant content of justice for him. And they're all, as we can see, quite theocentric. So the third part. If one was to select a commonly referenced moral theory with which to associate Anselm's position at this point, it would not be surprising if it were either deontological or divine command ethics. Many characteristic Anselmian assertions sound like conscientism of Anla Leth. The absolute contrast between other goods, the useful, the beneficial, those we seek through an ineradicable will to happiness, and the good of justice seems much like contrast on duty's absolute priority over any objects of our desires and inclinations. The heterogenous diversity of goods desired for and as components of a state of happiness that Anselm acknowledges calls to mind Kant's own suspicions about whether happiness can even be adequately understood, let alone enjoy it precisely because it would comprise complete satisfaction of a being's inclinations and desires. Identification of distinctly moral goodness as justice in Anselm's case resembles Kant's own framing as willing not only in conformity to duty, but from duty. The focus on the will and its motives, unwilling justice for its own sake, with the object of maintaining justice within the will, also sounds like conscientism and medieval guard. So could Anselm be a conscient? There are good reasons to answer no. Among them the fact that justice in one's own happiness do remain integrally interconnected for Anselm, in contrast to Kant who stresses the disassociation between happiness and duty. Explaining precisely how this takes place goes beyond the scope of this paper, but it can be said that the unavoidably theological dimension of Anselm's theory plays a part. In fact, this is another point about this, this would render it hopelessly heteronymous to Kant in multiple ways. Not only does Anselm say explicitly that rectitude of will consists in obedience to the divine will, which would be bad enough from Kant's perspective, he also maintains that once justice has been abandoned by the will of a rational being, it can only be restored by God's grace. Such considerations raise the possibility that Anselm's moral theory is best understood as an example of divine command ethics. There are certain ambiguities about precisely what such a moral theory involves, but one generally agreed upon characterization is that the theory renders morality ultimately dependent on God, the divine will, or that will is promulgated in command so that practically speaking divine revelation becomes the source for moral standards and right action involves and is measured by obedience to or conformity with such revealed commands. If all that is meant by this is that God is the ultimate origin of goodness or justice, as we've already seen this is true of Anselm's theory. But divine command moral theory is typically interpreted as implying that God can, or even does, command actions which might seem to contradict morality, but which by virtue of being commanded by God thereby become morally right, even obligatory. Other typical commitments assert God or divine revelation to be the exclusive source of moral standards, goodness or rightness, or that a human being cannot be moral without knowing God's revealed commands, recognizing and following them solely because they are God's commands not because God happens or necessarily commands what in fact is good, right or moral. If we understand divine command theory along these lines, divine command theory is explicitly rejected by Anselm in multiple places. So the fourth part, does Anselm hold a natural law theory? What other moral theory or theories might Anselms be more closely aligned with? Perhaps in looking at a few passages where Anselm actually carries out moral reasoning, where we mentioned sources for moral reasoning and evaluation, more suitable candidates will suggest themselves. Not surprisingly, Anselm does refer to scripture as a guide for morality in two ways. At times the relation upon the meaning of passages leads him into drawing out interpretations for the nature and condition of the human being, human relations and interactions with the divine, and particularly while moral matters. At other times he cites appropriate passages to provide a basis, an example or just to inform a moral claim or line of argument that he makes. Interestingly, Anselm places equal weight on authoritative interpreters of scripture and Christian life, admonishing a fellow bishop, for instance, by saying he's quoted a few of the many authorities. If it's a sin to speak against the Lord and against so many holy fathers who truly understand the sayings of the Lord, what is it then to act against authorities? Yet, Anselm is no fundamentalist or ecclesial authoritarian. What qualifies such authorities is that they've demonstrated themselves to have developed genuine wisdom, a state which requires some moral as well as intellectual progress. In fact, faith and reason, the divine order and the natural human intellect are not radically opposed to each other for Anselm. Anselm writes a scripture as containing the authority for every truth reason infers, since it either clearly affirms them or does not in any way deny them. He asserts that the justice one ought to cultivate can be called the law of God since it's from God, but also the law of the mind, since it's understood by the mind. Just as the old law is called the law of God since it's from God and the law of Moses since it was provided through Moses. Anselm himself rarely uses the term natural law, but it would be no stretch to say this moral theory bears strong affinities with the natural law moral theory like that of Thomas Aquinas. For Anselm, all created beings permitted by the orders of divine providence, but we human beings participated in this in ways radically transcending those of non-rational beings through our uses of reason and through our willing, both of which permit us to go astray as well as rightly. So we're called in his view to employ reason to more and more fully discern and willingly co-operate with an order of law, a complexly structured normativity which has its source in the divine, but shares its intelligibility with the human being seeking to be as it ought to be or as it was made to be. Again, created human being, he tells us is rational so that it might discern between the just and the unjust between the good and the evil and between the more good and the less good. Otherwise, it would have been made rational in vain by a similar reasoning he says. It's proven that it received the power of discernment so it would hate and avoid evil and it would love and prefer the good, even more greatly love and prefer the greater good. So reason is a source for our grasp of this ordering built into this. One consequence of this bears directly on the human relationship with the divine through justice and ordering of goods. He says it's certain that the rational nature was made for this, that it should love and prefer the supreme good above everything else and not for the sake of something else, but for its own sake. And this bears intellectual implications as well. The rational creature ought to apply all of its capacity and will to remembering, understanding loving the supreme good for which and he knows himself to possess his very being. Both in general and in determinant relations, the human being must employ reason in one way or another to discern what is good and bad, what ought to be done, what ought to be avoided, not only in weighing and ordering various goods but also working out their concrete arrangements and implications and forming the will which ultimately chooses. To do this rightly is not only to strive towards one's final end, but also to realize what a human being was made to be and ought to be an action in willing and thinking, in desires, affections, emotions even in relationships. In fact, full rationality is not simply a given any more than is right volition and the functioning of both faculties in form and influence each other's development or degeneration in Anselm's moral theory. Everything said so far sounds compatible enough with Thomas' natural law theory, but as pointed out, Anselm rarely uses that term and certainly does not provide us with any systematically derived pre-sense of the natural law. So depending on how one wants to define that sort of theory Anselm may or may not fit. The last part of it the most promising prospect for assigning Anselm's moral theory is actually virtue ethics, not least because Anselm himself speaks in terms of virtue and vice so often. The admiral, his biographer tells us that Anselm engaged in sustained and systematic study in which he quote, uncovered the origins and so to speak the very seeds and roots and process of growth of all virtues and vices and made it clearer than light how the former could be attained in the latter avoided or subdued. I kind of wish Anselm would have actually written this down, but most of what he did was oral. One might raise a problematic question though. For simply talking about virtues does not necessarily entail a commitment to virtue ethics. It would seem that at least two other things are needed. A thinker would have to articulate a robust conception of virtues and vices as developed dispositions reflective of character and choice and would also have to make them central to rather than derivative in moral life development and evaluation. So does Anselm do this? Well, he maintains that virtues are good more ace. Qualities of the soul which were unstable now brought to the condition of habit says they exist and the soul is stable. The virtues are also products of the human use of the will. Right choices and commitments are both productive of and products of the virtues. They are also in accordance with the virtues conforming to their patterns and dictates. When the person's will is properly aligned, the soul and its powers are open to doing what God commands, what justice demands, what rightly used reason reveals, Anselm says. He says, for the soul is open to the inclination of the virtues and to willing what should be preferred. Memory to the remembering of what ought to be remembered, thought to thinking what ought to be thought upon, understanding to distinguishing what should be willed or remembered or thought, is raised up to charity, is disposed to humility, is strengthened towards patience and is open to, he says, the other virtues that should be generated. Now Anselm tells us in what we do have of his writings, much more about the monastic mode of life than others, but there's no reason to think that his consistent stress on the need to inculcate virtues and root out vices in that mode is not reflective of a broader attitude applying to all human beings. In a beautiful analogy, he even makes virtues central in the right use of reason. He says, just as the human body cannot subsist without frequent provision of food to it, so the soul cannot live by reason without frequent engagement with the virtues. So the virtues can be thought of as determinant ways in which the will to justice assumes a stable form in the human will, in the soul, in the human being, in the pattern of his or her life actions and relationships. The will to justice itself that should be noted can be stronger or weaker in a person and must develop through willing in actions so that it properly structures and eventually pervades the person's will to happiness. This entire complex of desires that we naturally have. Directing the person towards enjoyment of his or her true ends. One must also develop the capacity for perseverance within the will, for resisting the temptation to choose goods incompatible with justice. A kind of fortitude. Consisting in willing perseveringly. Cleaving constantly or consistently to rectitude a well kept for its own sake. In the end then, Anselm's moral theory is most adequately understood as a virtue ethics in which justice, humility, perseverance and charity are arguably and in different ways the most architectonic virtues. I'll close with a passage from one of Anselm's letters, writing as their avid to his fellow monks back, he says. This is fairly typical of him. My joy in this world is your virtuous life. I pray I deceit you that absent or present you may gladden my heart by living virtuously and satisfy my longing and joy by your goodness. Thanks. Thank you. Nice to meet you. It's just about under half an hour. Nice and time presentation. Alright, we now have about 15 minutes for questions from the audience. Yeah, this is a sort of meta question about the project as a whole. It seems to me that the conclusion in a way of your attempts to characterize Anselm, he doesn't actually fit any of the categories that contemporary theorists might want to put him in. Is that right or am I? Well, I think that he does fit virtue ethics. Okay. But virtue ethics, I mean one integral part of that tradition is we have to ask, well, whose virtue ethics? Right.  Or are we looking at domestic virtue ethics? Or, you know, it's going to be connected with natural law? Yeah, I don't think he fits, he certainly doesn't fit Kant's version of deontology, which, you know, we assume to view as the exemplar. He doesn't fit the divine command theory. Clearly says no on that. Natural law is kind of a tough fit, although there's a lot of good alignments. Ethics of care is actually an attractive one because Anselm focuses so much on emotions, on relationships and how those laws ought to be structured, especially on love and caring. But the academic category of it, he wouldn't fit very well. But virtue ethics, he does. But virtue ethics, think of like Macintyre's version of virtue ethics, where virtue ethics cannot just be some category by itself to the exclusion of these other theories. It has to incorporate what's best in them.  So the elements of other theories, like the focus, very strong focus on the will and rectitude will act for its own sake, which looks like the anthology. We have to be incorporated into virtue ethics in order to make it work well. If the reason I would answer the question is, I was considering the possibility that maybe Anselm's theory is just sui generis, in which case trying to pigeonhole him a certain way might detract from the distinctiveness of the view. Some of the people who have written on Anselm's moral theory, there's not an awful lot out there seem to interpret him like that. But what I want to do is to sort of bring him into the fold of virtue ethics and say that he is, you know, one of the things that we often forget, in part because when we look at the medieval, those of us that are interested, tend, I think, to focus much more on scholastic philosophy and theology than monastic theology. Guys like Anselm get left out of the picture, although they were incredibly influential throughout the villages, even on the scholastic authors. So I don't want to bring Anselm back into the fold, you might say. The larger project that we've written on Anselm is both here. And so you're getting almost, you might say, just talking points in this one. Not particularly well supported, maybe. I'll just put on the floor a distinction which your doubts. You're talking about the end of an action. There are two ways of talking about the end and just before I talk you better to get a cup of coffee. Well, what you wanted was the coffee. For what you wanted yourself. And how you wanted it was in drinking. Well, drinking is the way well, hot coffee would be here. So what do you want? I want a cup of coffee, but I want it for me to drink. Yeah. Typically in when people criticize virtue theory, especially in the case of Aristotle and Aquinas and the notion of happiness being they say, well, this is too selfish, too self-focused. And they're accusing them of distinguishing the quadrant that you pursue the good which could, the good that's good to me. That's my happiness. Yeah. So the what you're desiring is subordinated to me as being what it is for the sake of it. Now, you rightly pointed out, I think that for Anselm, that too is an error. If you desire it for me, that's the love, concupiscence. Well, actually, he says there's good and bad concupiscence. But nevertheless, it's still desiring it for me. Anselm is fine with goods for me. With him, it's a question of the ordering of the goods. Right. And even with regular virtue ethics, you know, so people have been debating is Aristotle or the egoist. I think that's not a useful way to frame it because in order to enjoy happiness in a full sense, you have to be sharing it with other people. So you can't be just, you know, selfish. But that would be enough for Shirley for Anselm. Sharing the goodness with other people. That's what heaven is for him. Yeah, but Shirley, as you mentioned, the crucial thing is the love of justice. Yes. That's what you should want me to do. And doesn't he say in the fold of the devil, the devil's problem was to regard God as a good for himself and not as a good for others. Being my God. But he loved God with love and concupiscence, not love and justice. Is that right? Well, he talks about the will to happiness. Anselm doesn't use the language of concupiscence as he wants. As far as I can tell. And the devil screwed up by loving, by wanting, by desiring the best good you could possibly have, which is to be like God. Well, it's not that it was for himself. Anselm says he desired it inordinately because it's not a bad thing to want that for yourself. Anselm says if we said that, then being Jesus Christ would be a bad thing, right? So it's more a matter, and this is why I think again, Anselm bears a lot more similarities to virtue of others. The will to justice, he says, temper is the will to happiness. So it acts upon all these inclinations and desires that we have, and it straightens them out. It gives them to, you know, to invoke something versatility in a, at the right time for the right reason to the right degree. Anselm doesn't use that language, per se. And you have to dig, you have to do a lot of digging around to find examples. I think it's letters in this passage or that passage. But I think you can put them together systematically to get something very much like that picture. My comment is not quite right. I was trying to push the point that because of Anselm... You want it more like Kant? Well, I think this distinction is far more crucial for Anselm than it is in Aristotle or Aquinas, even though it's not denied by them. But this is crucial for him in a way that you don't find it in the virtue of it. It's a dispute that rumbles. Yeah, I mean loving yourself properly. Understanding what ought to be for you, what is your legitimate good, is social for Anselm. Sure, the question is not that this is okay, sure this is okay. The point is that ethics is really about loving the good, in this case God, for his own sake, regardless of himself. And that seems to be a point that is unseemletag since the Aristotle and Aquinas and it's big in Anselm. Well, in Aristotle, sure. Certainly in Aristotle, but it's a bit dodgy in Aquinas. It's big in Anselm, it's big in Skodas. Yeah, and as Skodas was informed. Right, so I'm trying to say that he's not, if he's in virtue of it, he says he's not in your Aristotelian mode of virtue. Yeah, I'd agree with that. You'd have to do a lot of pushing together. Okay, we have one question and you have a question? First here then. You said that Anselm rejects a divine commentary. Yes. And then earlier you said and maybe I missed the connection or the disconnect. When a person wills what God wills and to will. Yes. That person is doing right. That's rectitude of will, yes. How is that a rejection or that? I take the divine command theory to be going beyond just saying that a person will ought to be aligned with the will of God. I mean natural law theory says that as well. Divine command theory, and again this is kind of a goosey goosey term, isn't it? It means different things to different people. It tends to get invoked as the notion that God is the sole source of all commands, rules, those sorts of things. And so long as you follow those rules, you're okay. And if God were to change those rules tomorrow, that would be okay too because it's God. And Anselm considers issues like that in Herde's homo, the Prostologian monologian to a certain extent and he knew one other work and he says, well that wouldn't be God then if God were to actually change the rules of the game and he counts as if it's right and wrong, that wouldn't be God. That would be something else. God is following his own nature. Could God take away justice from a person? Anselm says no, once a person has justice, well not even God can take it away because why is that a restriction on God? No, because God wouldn't do that sort of thing. God would never command something that went against the goodness that God already knows. The divine command theory that we it's sort of an academic category as it often gets taught it sounds as if well God can switch things up if he likes. And that's what I'm saying Anselm is rejecting. That's why he's not a good fit for that. Thank you. One of the, I mean you've been contrasting Anselm with the other people and basically saying he's not like this in those respects. So we haven't had an awful lot of a positive account. I did anticipate that you were heading toward virtue theory actually fairly early. But it seems to me that there is one question that's this sort of outstanding here. He also, Anselm seems to be, I would guess, a neoplatonist in that he... In a very funny way. Definitely identifying God as sort of the source or defining basis of justice particularly and maybe secondarily other goods too. God is, he is a neoplatonist in that every one of the divine attributes is something within which other things participate. So God is the goodness by which other things are good but not necessarily primarily. God is the truth by which all of the truths are truthful.  Okay, that's what I suspected. Well, you know, again you can pick a thousand different virtue theories. Maybe that's a slight exaggeration. But one notorious problem for virtue theory is it tends to provide no account for why virtues, specific virtues are good. It just stops there oftentimes. Or it actually defeats itself by appealing to something and becomes, in a sense, something other than virtue theory. So if virtues really promote happiness then in an ultimate sense we have a kind of hedonism or a utilitarian... Or eudaimism. Yeah, well, right. And Catherine Rodgers actually thinks Anselm is a... I don't actually buy her. Well, so my question is simply this I guess, if he's primarily a virtue theorist then he is adding another component here. And that is a basis for virtue in God. And then there's... I mean, and I agree that I don't think it's divine command theory, certainly in the standard way, but there is still a basis of all virtue in God's nature. So is God ultimately the basis or defining explanation of all virtue or are we going to take virtue theory more like is imitating God that... Well, both friends are. I mean... He says this in the courteous poem, Christ actually gives us an example and say for humility. But then he unpacks it in a couple of different places and dictates and also in a lot of the letters what humility consists of. He's got some analysis we could put together. And he's not just referring to God in that. Like I said in here, I think all the virtues for Ansel can be conceived of as determinant ways in which the will to justice takes shape, takes hold of the human will, takes a stable form within it. So they're all ultimately ways of willing justice the right relationship to God for its own sake, within oneself possibly just superimposing it on the will to happiness, possibly contradicting our will to happiness when we curb our desires or things like that. I don't know that that turns them into no longer being virtues. No, I'm really one of that kind of virtue theory. One more question quickly. This is actually very close related to what you were talking about. It seems to me that if I understood you correctly that for Ansel justice plays a central, or the essential of these ethics. You say that what I'd like to do is to try to get some clear grasp of what justice is for Ansel. Especially if you want to make him a non virtue ethic a person who's a ascribed to virtue ethics but does it in a way by underpinning these virtues with justice which would make him no longer a virtue ethicist but at least then you would have a basis for the other virtues. Here's my question. You say, well, first of all, justice is central. And God is justice. And everything else is just by virtue of participating in this justice. But not necessarily directly. It's not as if just God and everything directly participates with God. I don't care about how directly or indirectly, God is supposed to be justice.  So that doesn't help me to say that God is justice. One of the implications of Ansel's doctrine is we don't in fact know what justice in its fullest sense is. Any more than we know a reason in its fullest sense is because it is God. We have intimations of it but ours are always they can always get better and better. Isn't that very destructive conclusion to come to for Ansel? Destructive in no way. Because, well, we can't know what justice is. There's a difference between the other virtues than we can't know what virtues are. There's a difference between not knowing period and not fully knowing. Can you give me some sense of what justice is for Ansel? Sure. Again, what's his definition of it? Willing rectitude of will kept for its own sake. So being thrown into a determinate situation in which you have to stick to what you ought to do as opposed to say your inclinations. What you ought to do is to be defined by what justice is and I don't know what that is. He's not providing anything like a foundational, okay, here's the three axioms of it and then it goes from... No, I just want to understand. You can't fling around terms loosely without defining them in some sense. He does actually. Well, then that's a real problem in my mind. Yeah. Because you can't get a grip on what justice is if rectitude of will will always being steadfastly willing what is just. But again, I don't know what that is. But how do you learn what a virtue is anyway? It's not somebody coming up to you and saying, okay, here's the definition. I'll just do this. Through practice, through being embedded in some sort of milieu. So if you want examples of all the different things, if you want examples of where Anselm gives instances, he says, here's the just thing, here's the unjust thing, here's why it's just, here's why it's unjust. There's a lot of individual examples in letters and little bits here and there in the treaties and even arguably in his prayers. But yeah, this is one of the challenges of Anselm. What he in fact did as the Admiral said, you know, uncovered the very roots and sources of the virtues and vices, he didn't write it down. Unfortunately, like a treatise. But if you've got these examples of justice, I don't know if you have time. Sure. That would be an inductive approach then to Okay. Because you probably want this well-rated, I think. Yeah, well, pushing this point. And it would actually, it might actually presuppose what you're trying to prove here, but as you can say, that's justice, that's searches, that's justice. Maybe not. Maybe you can just say, well, this is a certain kind of action that's similar to that kind of action, similar to this kind of action and what they have in common is this thing and I'm going to call that justice. That's fair enough. Yeah. You'll find that. Well, I have more to think about. Okay. Go ahead.


Hello, everybody. Andrea here. So it's the end of the year, fast approaching. I know it is now time to review your portfolio. So you might be wondering, how do I do this exactly? So you would first send me your full portfolio, either by saving it as a PDF file, or if you like, I can have temporary access into your CDHO login. So you would create a temporary password for me. So send me an email with your CDHO number and my temporary password, but also make sure to let me know your different security questions. So there's three of them. They might ask me either one, so I need to know what question it is and the answer to allow me access. So portfolio reviews do typically take two weeks, depending on how many I get at a time. So if I'm getting 10 a day, it's going to take me two weeks to go through yours. Okay, so get it in as soon as possible. Also, I don't know, usually it takes less than two weeks, but it truly does depend on somebody's portfolio. If you have 10 goals a year for me to look at, it's going to take me longer. So don't give me 10 goals and the CDHO isn't going to like that either. I will likely go through the first three and just kind of let me know what I think. So I don't change anything with your portfolio. So don't worry, I don't change a thing. But what I do is I go through everything with a fine tooth comb, it takes time.  So I will outline per year, which goal I'm talking about what I like about it, what I don't like about it and why, and what I might suggest changing so that you don't get that phone call, or a fail basically by the CDHO. So I talked to you guys also about how to prepare for that phone call.  So I do teach you guys that as well. But the goal of me looking at your portfolio is so you know you're on the right track. So you can either send it to me when you're halfway through, or send it to me when you're completely done. That's totally up to you. I've never seen a portfolio yet where I basically said this is horrible do it again. Never. But I have offered a lot of suggestions in the past, where I will tell you if you don't change this you will likely get a call from the CDHO and possibly even even an on site visit. I have seen things before where are they're just downright wrong. Just as an example, you know somebody might be sterilizing their high volume sections, when we all know those are disposable, unless they're stainless steel, but the CDHO doesn't like those so that might warrant a phone call so I kind of tell you that as well. I walk you through things that I feel need help with, or I will tell you which goals are excellent and keep it up so that's what I do. So it's up to you if you want to send it to me through a PDF, or give me temporary access but send me an email so if you're in the portfolio shop which I'll leave the link for you on the bottom if you don't have it yet. You get complimentary full portfolio review so the portfolio review comes with that course. If you're watching the video and saying I'm not in your course I'm pretty much done the portfolio I don't feel like I need your course to help me with that, but I just want you to look at it to make sure I'm doing okay. That's another link which is the portfolio review only so I will leave the link for you guys there as well as well. Now if you're taking the quality assurance exam instead of the portfolio. I can look at your practice profile for you if you're really not sure, because if you take the quality assurance exam you don't have to submit your portfolio as well. But you do need to submit your practice profile so that needs to be done. If you need help with that you guys, I can help you so I will leave the link for you guys there too. So I hope this helped let me know if you have any questions and I'll see you guys in the next one.


Harper from Mountain View Dodge and look what we got SRT Durango. This is a gorgeous, gorgeous SUV. You have to wear shades. You're driving this kind of vehicle. Let me tell you about this. 475 horsepower. Not your normal SUV. Torque. Oh, she's got a torque. All-wheel drive? You betcha. This is an all-wheel drive. That means all your power is going to the back end as a rear-wheel drive vehicle. However, if it needs the power to the front, like that, before you can even react, it's throwing the power to the front. So it's keeping you in a very stable environment, which means with these awesome scorpion tires, winter driving, piece of cake, even with all this power. We move into the summer. Man, have you got power. I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen the videos of the 4-wheeled burnout. I'm not going to do that as I like my job here at Mountain View Dodge because I get to drive cars like this. I'm not going to do a burnout and risk it. Once you get the vehicle, you do the proper braking period, just like a Hellcat. Then that's what you're going to play with stuff like that. Your launch pages, and it has them. We'll show you that in a minute. Come with me to the back here. Take a look in here. The SRT has a few of the additional changes. The seats have upgraded with SRT in it. We have the nice suede leather combination, stitching, fit and finish, rear heated seats. Everything that you would have in your normal Durango is there. The big changes here really are the power and the performance. One of the little conditions they did is they gave us the upgraded logo here. So you have the 4 as in the show. 4-wheel drive or all-wheel drive. Not 4-wheel drive. There is a difference, but you got the power going to all 4. Yes, there's a plate on. Forget you see that. That's so that I can legally be on the road here to show you this awesome car. Because this is not something to show you in the parking lot. When you come to buy this SRT, and I know you're going to come and buy it, because why wouldn't you? This thing is awesome. You are going to get a very limited test drive. The reason is we don't want every Tom, Joe, Mary, Sally coming and driving this vehicle just to drive it. To say they drove one. No, when you come to buy this vehicle, we're going to go through all the proper procedures and steps. And then we know you're serious about buying. We're going to go for a very limited drive, so that we keep the kilometers down on this. We don't want the new owner to have lots of kilometers on their vehicle. You want to have low k's. So this is not a demo where everyone drives. This is a specialty SUV. That is the hottest SUV on the market. Yes, we have the Hellcat version of the Grand Cherokee coming. That's going to be sweet. But this is your true six, seven passenger SUV. We're going to take a look inside to show you some of the performance pages in a second. So just give me one moment and we'll move inside. Okay, so let's start this baby up. And that's so nice. Oh, takes a couple seconds for the upgraded system to load up. Here we go. So as you can see, you have the choice of going into a track mode, sport, custom, auto, snow, and even tow. So what happens when you hit these different modes? Well, let's go into sport mode. You'll see that changes your stability control. How the all wheel drive is throwing the power in the vehicle, your suspension and your steering is giving you the option to use the paddle shifters. We come down to sport setup and now we can actually change how we set everything manually if we want. We'll come out. We got a track setting. Same thing and change everything. You have race options. So we go into race options. Now here is our launch control. So you hit that and the vehicle starts to rev her up and she's getting ready to take off. So you're going to get those fast launches on the track. Or if you're doing something else that you probably shouldn't be doing, no comment. Now I can go over here to performance pages. This is also pretty fun too. So you really stay in touch or in tune with the SRT Durango very much like you were driving a Hellcat or even the new demons coming out because this is giving you everything here. Here we go. Performance pages are up. GeForce. I can go to my gauges. Check everything out here. I can go to my engine. So what this does is as I rev it, you'll see that changes a little bit. It'll tell me how much horsepower I'm using, how much torque, oil pressure, everything. Going to dyno. This is pretty cool. You can actually keep track of your vehicle. If I give that a little rev there, you'll see the lines go up here. So you're going to watch everything. Like I said, you're in time. You're in tune with your vehicle. If I go to timers, you want to see how fast your reaction time is, how fast your 60 footer and some of those other numbers that I won't mention because we shouldn't do that unless we are on the track. Boys and girls and me. So let's go here. Normal features, everything else with the Uconnect system is the same. These are the highlights of the SRT. You want this vehicle? Give me a call. Dean Harper,<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's the dealership. You can get a hold of me at dharper at mountainviewdodge.com or send me a text even on my cell phone,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Let's come. Let's negotiate. Let's be one of the first people in the hottest, hottest all-wheel drive SUV on the market. Until then, we'll see you soon. Fire.


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No Cameraman I say that you don't back down from nobody. I did did did you look in the camera? Marshawn Lattimore is the dog looking the camera when I say that. Oh well. Yeah, I suppose he did actually You don't back down from nobody like he needs to get more respect.  I was wondering why a guy like Justin Jefferson with his speed and his skill would say that Marshawn Lattimore is the hardest cornerback to come up against Why let's have a look at his stats Marshawn Lattimore 25 years of age six foot tall 192 pounds pick number 11 in the first round of the 2017 draft He went to Ohio State and he's been at the Saints ever since he's made three pro bowls The first of which was in his rookie season. The second of which was in 2019 and third of which was last year He was the NFL defensive rookie of the year in 2017 and he runs a 40-yard dash in 4.36 seconds 38 and a half inches in the vertical 11 foot on the broad jump and a 23 on the Wonderlick test His hand size is Notably smaller than that of Jarvis Landry being that Lattimore is less than nine inches Whereas Jarvis Landry is over 10 He's six foot 193 pounds signed a four-year 15.35 million dollar contract on June 3rd 2017 and he is currently I assume playing out the last year of his contract. Ah There's a section titled legal issues. You never like to see this on March 25th, 2021 Lattimore was arrested for possession of a loaded handgun That was believed to be stolen and was charged with possession of a concealed weapon and Receiving stolen property a fourth-degree felony. He was booked into Cuyahoga County Jail with bond set at five thousand dollars. Now. That's old news. That's in March That's almost six months ago. So we're not gonna focus on that I'll tell you what we will focus on and that's a speed and that's exactly what we heard from Justin Jefferson talking about his you know out and out speed especially in that first 10 20 yards, which means Which means that he's got the confidence to shut down any short passes which land in front of him But he's also got that speed that's gonna allow him to defend the deep ball as well Let's continue the video You don't get no better than that Yes that alpha mentality He wants to smoke every time every time Tell you what hearing Trey White talk about that hearing him list off those players that he's got to deal with week after week after week season after season Yeah, it's no surprises. It is no surprises. I mean if I can get this quote right a rising tide lifts all ships Is that what it is? What is that quote? A rising tide lifts all boats and when you're talking about a cornerback having to deal with Michael Thomas at Practice day after day after day that rising tide is gonna lift all ships all Cornerbacks all defensive backs all offensive players having to go against these defensive guys that quote applies a Rising tide lifts all ships Michael Thomas lifts March on later more. Let's be real And he gonna let you know You got to be clean when you're going to get smart shot Where you attack the ball Where you release Even if you beat him at the line, he's still probably gonna be in your hip He's got elite Elite speed and it counts for a lot. He's got elite speed on the handshakes, too. Oh, no I was gonna say guaranteed. He's got at least one pick six during the season and if he doesn't I'll be surprised You've got to half us somebody come on on top.  I do think he's a really good corner I think like he plays physically very smarty fast Like he has all the tools that you would want in your number one corner and that's why you know, they think so highly of him That was cordial. Yeah Game recognized game right like I'm not I'm not above like giving guys credit because we got so many talented guys in this league man They deserve it shout to my god Marshawn. I hope he gets where he deserves on this list Cool man, I like that but what I do need to confirm is exactly what Was said to Godwin Right here. You know, they think so highly of her. No, they think so highly of her That was cordial That was cordial just a second huh Cordial Not to be confused with a Sweet fruit flavored drink, which is the only cordial. I know but there is a definition for cordial And it is warm and friendly and that's exactly what Godwin was being Yeah Right I'm not above like giving guys credit because we got so many talented guys in this league man They deserve it. Absolutely. I got Marshawn. I hope he gets where he deserves on this list What I do want to say is this guy right here right now Has not a single wrinkle on his entire face kind of jealous Well, there you have it Marshawn later more In all of his glory. We actually Found out quite a bit about him. He's mid 80s on the list and believe it or not Some of you may be confused due to the fact that I had here in the last video And I don't in this one. The only reason is because I missed this video. I missed number 86 So I've had to come back a couple of weeks later and you know pick up the pieces so to speak So here we are. 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things i have to do so right now before i get started um because i have to film two videos today and i gotta edit um it's only two o'clock it feels so much later because the daylight's even so the sun looks like it's setting right now it's like it feels like five o'clock but it's only two um but i gotta make a video live so that's what i'm about to do um it is a sponsored video so i have to make it live so that's what i'm about to do right now it's already uploaded um i just have to make the thumbnail and the links to the clothes in the video because it's a sponsored video so that's what i'm about to do right now i'm gonna show y'all what i do for i don't have a bit right now and i'll explain later i don't i'm gonna show y'all what i do for my thumbnails it's real simple for right now um i don't use anything crazy or anything like that um but i'm just putting all the details and stuff on this video before i move on to the next thing because i did just get home i would have did this earlier but my video took two hours to download from final cuts pro and um then i had to go to my appointment in chicago so um but i just let the video load on so you too i was gone so i'm gonna name this vlog new clothes first time getting a wax since the l oh no lips and more all right so then i just gotta fill in the description uh i have to do all this yeah yeah like i said i will explain why i don't have a baby so yeah so um so if you're a creator i would suggest you get um a magic links literally you can get so much money that like this is another form of income that i have so i work with magic links and magic links is um basically you get to link like stuff um they have stuff on like stores that will allow you to link like basically it's like a suggestion so basically say for instance like i'm also for a website and i think and i use this product and i tell you the um and i mention it and i link it you make the link to the product and that will be your personal link so if anybody buys um the product that you mentioned you get commission off that so it's a form of income and then also when the brands on this website see that you are making a whole bunch of money for them or you know they're interested in you um and they see how you know you are advertising your stuff and how much money and commission you are making the certain brands will reach out to you to work with you to pay you um you know a rate and then also uh commission as well so double the pay so yeah it's pretty dope i'm glad i made one because this is fucking late um and i'm excuse my language but it's late oh yeah i work with nasiel through magic links and right now i'm going to make links for the clothes i have in the video and i'm going to show you how i do it okay so in the video i had worked with nasiel damn this shit is sold out so um i'm not going to link this so i got this set in the video this set right here so i'm going to copy this and then go to magic links and then paste this right here create a link copy the link and then we're going to go to my description box paste so then i'm going to put on here what is called the pocket of conversation nonsense but nobody's gonna know i'm sorry i'm gonna put cream off the shoulder lounge set and that's gonna be linked on here so yeah so i'm about to link all the clothes that i have in this blog um so that's what i'm about to do so i'm just gonna roll that but yeah so i would suggest you make a magic link if you are a creator or just you know you can be you can just do you uh instagram not even have youtube um you just have to be accepted so yes if you just can't make it they have to accept you or you gotta like apply for it and stuff like that so like um on the main page would say i'm a creator or a brand you just have to fill out some stuff and then they go and check your profile and they'll be like okay approved um so yes make a magic links if you are because t is actually income girl like it's crazy how much you can make it's crazy as fuck but okay let me just get to doing this and i will talk to y'all in a minute so i just got done doing the description for the video it does take a little minute but now i'm about to make the thumbnail so a picture i want from the video um to be in my thumbnail is this because obviously i want a clothing piece to show so and i use final cut pro to edit my videos and this is how you save a video a picture from the video you just go to save current frame and you can also use um iMovie if you have a mac it's literally the same thing like literally but they just have more transitions and stuff and like um like a special effect if you want to just be extra basically but it's literally the same so i'll just basically show see where this is at normally it won't pop up be more recent and then i'll just airdrop it to my phone so i got the photo so i normally just use over well i got a motorbike first hold on let me go like that so i would a motorbike and then um i probably it depends on how many pictures i want in the thumbnail so i may do this one because there's a few things going on in this vlog so then i put it to 16 9 because that's the thumbnail size there you go and then i'm going to add this in there so that's one picture for the thumbnail wrong yeah look at my picture in my phone y'all know when you show somebody something and they just look at all in your other pictures like what are you doing i didn't tell you to do that but i think i took a picture okay so now i got the thumbnail that i want oh my god a minute left really so i'm in the over app and i go to image and then i click my image that i want which was the thumbnail i just made and then i scroll over to thumbnail so it's already preset oh my god hold on okay i just had to delete some memory hold on okay so now i just made the thumbnail so i usually put the thumbnail in my phone um put the thumbnail on the video in my phone so now that's ready to go live so that checks one thing off my list for today and i'm going to try i have to hurry um and film my video before the sun goes on because i like the natural light and my um big lights from i got these from amazon i like these being on in y'all my bed is like this just because i y'all like the full body effect and everything of triumph so i just you know i gotta get the content so i just put my bed up in y'all probably like where do you sleep then pull don't worry about it just know that i'm getting a good night's rest okay but yeah so yeah and i'm not taking this bed with me when i move anyway so i probably am gonna just throw it out or something but um because i have this is the full and there's a queen my mom had uh ordered extra i guess it's in the basement so i'm gonna take that bed with me when i move but this is just up so yeah i use these lights from amazon i'm not sure where that from um but i can leak them they're just those um big um they it usually has like a screen right here but i don't use it um really make the best out of what i have like i uh try not to think about it now that i have a lot of things to do now it'll stressful for me um because in my room i have everything that you will leave in your house like your bathroom stuff my makeup my clothes like everything that will be spread out in your house is all in this room but i can't wait to move and have just space but if you're an upcoming youtuber and you don't have a lot of space just make the best of it do what you gotta do move stuff around just do what i do okay and just push through it'll be fine um because it's really level to the shape i always say that i always say that so i'm about to let my camera charge and i'm about to get in the shower and then i have to get um the stuff ready to film for the haul um i gotta hang it up so that's what i'm gonna do when i get off the shower and then i gotta make the video live so yeah so i'm gonna let my camera charge and yeah and i also film like my big main videos on this sony vz one um and also vlog as i am now um just because it's easier to maneuver i do have like a cannon but that uh connects to my what is it my laptop i gotta pee y'all sorry i'm a little antsy that um hooks up to my computer so it's like a monitor um but i'm not doing that right now i'm not doing any of that stuff until i move like any of like big tech stuff i just need quick and easy for me right now but let me go to the bathroom and i will show you how i film and stuff once okay y'all so it's been a little bit i had to let my camera charge so now we finna get it to recording all of these beautiful pieces um so yeah so i just set up everything so these are how the lights look and i have so much space here the mirror set up right there so i'm gonna have the camera back more so it's like that so it can get full body because i am gonna be using this camera but i wish this would go up more i gotta find some tape real quick but yeah i'm about to record and i just made my video live and that's doing really good and then after i record this video i'm going to um sit down and comment back because i love to communicate and be engaged with y'all that's my favorite thing ever is to be engaged that's very important when you're coming up be engaged don't act like you're too good do not do it because you they just won't fuck with you like that um and i really care about my support is that's just one thing about me that's just my thing that my fuck with them y'all heavy so so yeah so i'm about to record and i'm gonna record on my phone like i'm gonna just show y'all like hey my name is Cara from like a different angle like when i start this because i obviously can't do it on this because i'm using this to record the main video so but yeah i need to find tape to lift this up because i'm using my um little tripod that comes with my ring light so and then i just screwed my camera on right there so yeah so let's get this started because i have so much more to do so let's get it okay i'm about to put y'all right here from this angle just to show y'all so i'm about to practice and see if it looks good for wow anyway hey y'all what's popping welcome back to another video no i think girls what the fuck hey girl what's popping welcome back to another video for today's video we are gonna be doing a luck resort vacation you need to normalize black women in luxury okay like period like you need to normalize it so yeah so if you're new here hey girl my name is Cara and do not forget to like comment and subscribe and yeah we're just gonna hop right into the video because i have so much to show y'all so yeah let's just get into it and i hope y'all like this angle y'all said full body and i'm giving y'all full body so let's hop right into the video so then yeah i just check it okay perfect this thing i moved in here so so y'all i'm about to record okay so i just do that so now that i like everything i'm going to continue on filming and i will see y'all once i'm done this angle is so fucking weird but yeah i'm gonna see what's i'm done and i have uh two phones in the ad board so y'all i gotta get the wait next okay y'all so i just got done filming my video it's about nine o'clock right now it's still early so right now i am about to check on the video that i posted today that i made live um and she's performing very well um but right now i'm going to let's take a little lunch break because i haven't ate all day and um i'm about to eat a salad and reply to comments um like i said i love engaging with y'all i love talking to y'all so this is one of my favorite things to do especially if i have time like if i have time to do it i will sit down and reply to comment so out so that's what i'm gonna do right now and then i'm about to probably check like while i'm eating my salad i'm about to um wow what's in there i'm about to um watch some videos as well so yeah and then now also this salad is from peniel bread this is my favorite type of salad y'all a greek salad with extra dressing and olives baby so i'm gonna show y'all um some more work that i have to do i'm gonna edit for the rest of tonight but i need to turn in some stuff for um savage um some instagram stories so i pre-recorded some so now i just need to uh make the story cute so i did this already so i wanted to be cute so savage is a little bit strict and like you know um obviously it's a big brand and they have expectations so i like to make sure everything is you know a okay and good so i'm gonna use this um yeah this app called unfold to make the story cute and it has a whole bunch of different pre filters where all you need to do is just insert a video or photo that you want and it just automatically makes a story for you so i've been liking to post the product and me talking in the video so i pre-recorded the shoot i pre-recorded everything so okay so for instance this red top instagram stories my camera died so i'm about to show y'all because i made them last night so i'm gonna show y'all how to make and i had to turn the video so so this is how it came out like real cute like it's just a cute story and it's just cute and professional i feel like to have yeah so i feel like making these stories i don't know it just makes the story look put together not sloppy and you know i feel like certain brands are top-notch so you need to come correct you know what i'm saying so i made those with the app over no i made those with the app unfold i'm gonna just screen record my screen i showed y'all um a little bit in the beginning pre-recorded um like stories so basically all you need to do is just choose the one that you want and then you know go from here so normally i choose this one and i'm just gonna redo what i did and then you can choose the background um there's more but you gotta pay for it and i'm not paying for it all right i like the free stuff okay so this is cute yeah and you can just make it your own like and this is dope when you want to just have a more put together looking story or something like that are cute just for the aesthetics and you can add text and everything it just looks clean and just energy shows the brand that you take your page and stuff serious i feel like so and not trying to bullshit i mean they probably wouldn't say anything if it was regular but you know this is my first time working with him so i've been liking to come correct um so yeah and then you just save it i like that yeah so yeah that's what i had to do yesterday before i went to sleep and then i was editing um some videos but i woke up between i woke up at like four and i went back to sleep i'm like okay i'm gonna wake up when i go to sleep um when i go to sleep early when i yeah when i go to sleep early i wake up early and i'm like damn i wanted to get that done like i swear like when you work for yourself when you work for yourself you work more than a nine five i swear to you like it's not like i work more than i work nine five but anyway i'm just in the morning but it's like six something um i just got done editing um a draft that i had to send over to a company so no i'm about to edit a little bit and then um i have to film a video today and then i have to get some more savage x finty content today so i'm gonna be taking along with me on that so i'm not really gonna record anything else um this morning or show you anything just because i'm gonna be editing um but when i start you know recording for savage and and i gotta take a picture today for another company so yeah it's gonna be a busy day and i'm gonna take y'all along with me so let me go brush my teeth because i haven't yet and that's nasty and um wash my face and i'm gonna make me some coffee and get my little day started so i can't wait to take y'all along with me um oh and then i have to i actually have to plan out my day um um wait let me go brush my teeth first so now it's just been a little bit later i got ready because i'm about to film uh video yeah so y'all probably it's my um three month post-op q&a so i just did my makeup for that because i just wanted to answer the questions i really didn't want like my makeup to be an interruption or anything like that so because there was a lot of questions so um yeah so i just got ready for that and then later on i have to take some more footage for um savage and it's only 4 30 and it feels so late i hate daylight savings i swear to god it feels i'm like we have we ever had daylight savings like this before because it gets so black outside like literally so black it's like ridiculous so but anyway i just got ready i snapped on my makeup aliyah actually told me how to nose contour and i'm so happy she did i snapped period thank you boom so yeah i'm about to clean my area and then i'm gonna show y'all how like i said i maximized my space um because i do film in a small area but i gotta make it work and yeah just put my hair in a slick bun it's so cute but yeah let me clean up my mess real quick okay y'all so um i'm about to film so i'm gonna place my camera right here just so um so i can sit down while i'm answering the questions you know ready for date just gonna close this up and y'all see how it turns out when you watch the actual video so but yeah y'all i cannot wait to get a film in room this is crazy y'all i have been up since six o'clock i got so much done though i'm happy but still so yeah wow okay y'all so i'm about to film my sit down video and i'll talk to y'all after y'all i just got done filming my q and a so y'all like i said so now i gotta go take some pictures i gotta take two pictures for two different companies and still record one more video and share it with y'all so yeah we're gonna just knock this out real quick so i'm gonna pick out a outfit where what i want to wear today um for this pic and i'm gonna show y'all real quick but i'm still in love with my makeup like i don't really did it okay and i love when i i'm in these moves where i feel good um because you need like a really good attitude to like you know get this work done because it's not easy at all like people think this is just oh you make videos oh you do this and now i have to work to do baby okay and i just love when i'm like in like a positive attitude even though i ain't eat all day you know i'll be hangry and it's crazy but that coffee is really lasting me i need to go get some coffee actually i'm gonna go get some coffee real quick and um yeah so let me pick out my outfit and yeah i just showed y'all my butt in my three month post-op she think ashley ashley okay let me pick out my outfit so i can go and take a pic and do the rest of the things i gotta do good morning y'all it is the next day i woke up early once again why the fuck i gotta put my memory card in fucking um yeah but um anyways so i'm on my way to the shy um i don't know if i told y'all before but i've been really on a hunt for like some really good boots like to wear on a daily and um the Prada boots um have been really hard to find because they've been sold out so um oh like i was saying before i was interrupted um yeah so i'm going to chicago and the boots have been sold out for so long and they literally text me out the blue it was like we have the shoe like and i was like oh my god let me come try it on because i know um i'm gonna wear these like often and if i get like a designer shoe or something i'm gonna know that i'm gonna wear like i'm gonna you know wear it so and i know y'all been wanting to see these shoes because um i posted on my twitter and y'all was like oh my god show it show it show it so i was like of course i'm gonna show it now of course so this is no question so i am going to just record on my phone i don't know how they're gonna be um it's like i set an appointment to do this and the dude that i've been texting he's not there um he's on vacation or something so i'm gonna put the manager so it's gonna be a little different um so i don't know how this person is gonna be they be look like real iffy but i gotta look at my gps so i'm gonna put my camera down and then i'm gonna record them off on like i said so i'll see y'all see y'all so i'm ever since i got home i've been editing and i'm about to show y'all a trick i don't know if i ever showed y'all this um but i couldn't okay so this for this video i'm editing um i could use plugins for this video right like i could um insert like the name of something right here and put it down because i'm editing that clothing haul that i um showed y'all in the beginning of the video and i want to label put on there like what the brand is like on the bottom of the screen but um plugins kind of make my computer go slow um um but i just ordered something um because i have all these things saved in the plugins can make my thing go um slow so i really don't feel like dealing with that right now so what i'm about to do is i'm about to oh wait i'm trying to set y'all up so what i'm about to do is i'm about to write down all the names of the brands that i have in the video and then i'm going to on my phone use over app and this is what i was doing um in the beginning when a lot of people thought i was using final cut already but i really wasn't i was using just the over app and i would go in the over app and use the transparent and then i would just write out the text that i wanted because obviously in iMovie they be having that child just add shit in here like what the fuck like you want your stuff to be like clean and stuff so i like using um certain fonts so i'm gonna i know for a fact i got this brand in here so i'm gonna just write it out uh just to oh this is cute no more spending nah um let me get off of there but um okay i'm gonna write it out kim shui studio and then go back to the app so i'm gonna put kim shui studio i can see kim shui studio on the transparent so when it comes up on the screen it's no background i don't know if y'all knew that or not but yeah so so i'm just gonna airdrop it in here oh it just came to my computer right oh what the fuck so it just came to my computer so i'm just gonna drag it out the message down here and i'll just drag it right into final cut so and then i'm going to go by the kim shui where's she at i'm trying to do really good at it on this video oh here she go okay so i'm gonna put that right there and then i'm going to press transform and put this right here in the corner maybe i should have did it white yeah i should have did it white damn yeah i think i like the white better hold on okay i changed it so now i'm about to add a pop sound effect and i just download this by um youtube mp3 just so it can have like some sound so you'll see it come up so let me see yeah so that's how i do stuff um as far as like labeling and stuff um i used to do that for a long time in i movie um just because i movie doesn't have any fonts or i mean they do but you can't use any plugins for your video to make them like cute so yeah you can do that for anything like any like edit that you want like you can always just do it from your phone the airdrop it and put it in um to whatever you're editing with so and make it look nice like you don't have to get final cut like honestly like the shit is the same but yeah so i'm just gonna finish editing this video then i have and it's only four o'clock five o'clock i can't feel so fucking late but i'm going to finish editing this video and then i'm going to get a shower and then i gotta film another video and then take some pics well i really don't need to i don't i gotta make an instagram story and then that's it um i'm so tired y'all like i'm literally so sleepy like i haven't had any good rest these past couple days because i've been having to get up and edit and do work um but i'm so blessed i'm so grateful like i literally was like thinking why am i so stressed over something i'm like i'm literally i had a bad morning i'm not gonna lie to y'all about something and i'm like why do i feel like this even though i'm so blessed and i'm so grateful for y'all and that's what keeps me going honestly like y'all love me so much and i love y'all so much back so the support is real so anyway i'm about to finish this video because i need to go up today and i want it up by seven o'clock so yeah and then i'll probably do my makeup over again and do what i gotta do for tonight and then yeah so let's get away so video is complete but i just uploaded one of my photos from miami um i actually kind of like um not girl i'm not sure what the fuck um i actually kind of like um having photos on deck to post later uh aliyah told me about that so um yeah i'm living for it but y'all are blowing it up and i just like to sit and engage with y'all that's one of the things i like to do and um i like to comment back on what y'all are saying um just to get y'all feedback y'all i'm like anxious right now i drink too much coffee today like i just can't but yeah i'm just gonna do this for a little bit while my thing uploads my video and then i have to drop a wig off um and then i i'm just gonna edit today um and i'm not gonna film another video i'm just gonna edit because i have a lot to edit um so yeah so i'm just gonna do this for a little bit and then yeah talk to you guys later i realized i didn't even show y'all the photo but y'all probably have seen it already it's this one with the Melissa Simone swimsuit and plus the Melissa Simone swimsuit is gonna be in the video so i wanted this to be out so i can put it in the mail so yeah so anyway i'm gonna just engage with y'all because that's what i love to do and i will talk to y'all like i said i will talk to y'all later okay y'all um i don't have anything according to plan tonight but when do i ever um so i'm gonna show y'all the boots because i got them right here and girl remember i did i tell y'all was how to go to Zara i'm not sure if i didn't didn't but i had to return some boots and because they were ugly and i came out with two large shopping bags with the buck and i guess what y'all the type of stuff i get excited about now my new booty pillow came and i'm gonna try that out for you guys but let me show y'all the boots i would have recorded but homeboy was ready to go like literally it was so fast like all i did was trying to shoe on because he was waiting for me at the door really but this is my first time being at the proudest door in um chicago and they were real nice it was real nice but so it comes with like the receipt so i gotta save that and then this little box right here right here uh and then look at the boot y'all so this is the boot it's a leather in the nylon the nylon is right here in the middle and then it comes with this little pouch you can take the pouch off i've seen some girls um actually detach the pouch and put on their wrist i'm not doing that um i'm just gonna keep it on there but um they smell like a fresh shoe i love the fresh i'm gonna try them on for y'all just to show y'all how they look i'm gonna actually try both pairs on just to show y'all and i wanted a boot with like um shoe strings that tie up i guess you can say and these ones fit me so perfect i mean they're just a little tight right here but you can just always um adjust the strings to your likey but they fit really good i'm glad i got waiting to get a 40 and a half and a 40 and they don't make my feet look big so that's always a problem okay y'all so this is how i look i love them so cute i just gotta break them in for sure but yeah these is it i love them so cute i love them they're only tight um right here like literally right here and i think i just gotta break them in some but they don't hurt anywhere else not even on the back of my but um i'll be right here they're so cute i love them i'm so happy i got these oh my god like i literally will wear this on a daily basis with some leggings and like a shirt and call it one so yeah i'm so happy oh my god i can't believe i got these these are already loosening up already so yeah i gotta just break these in one last look for take them off yeah like i said i had to return some stuff and well some boots and they gave me store credit for one and then the other one i got to put all my cards so i was like hmm store credit let me look around so i don't have a hoodie in this color and i thought this color was real cute so i ended up getting that this hoodie with like a sweater material at the bottom um i think i thought this color was real cute and i got this in a size small super duper cute and zara been really having some really good one pieces lately so instantly when i walked in i seen this item and it's a full body suit like a little snow suit or something and i just love outfits like this like little one pieces so and it's a really thick material oh yes it's so soft oh my god y'all look how soft it looks you can tell it's soft as fuck oh my god i can't wait to wear this super cute this is kind of the same material no this one is a little softer but this is so fucking soft i can't and i got this in a size mind y'all we can't try on clothes as our but that should fit and then i got this turtleneck dress i thought it was real cute and classy and it's only what is it 17 dollars so i had to snag it super cute with the shoulders out it's long and i got this nice size small so hopefully it fits and then i got this i've been wanting one of these this plaid shirt in green i think it will go real cute and then i was like trying to put outfits together with my boots so this with some leggings in my boots i'm gonna call it a day boot i'm gonna call it a day and then lastly i got a lovely brown moment so i got these brown sweatpants and they were only these are cheap these was 30 dollars but i got these sweatpants and then it's like skinny leg at the bottom so that was a real cute little touch so yeah that's all that i got from zara so i'm gonna end this video off here um so yeah um i hope you guys enjoyed watching me do all this stuff be busy and things for y'all um but y'all keep me going and motivated i love making content um even a sleepless night so when y'all tell me oh that's bomb that's bomb like making content like i just feel so accomplished and it is very rewarding to me that y'all love the content that i put out so thank y'all so much and i'm just gonna end this video off i love y'all so much oh my fucking butt pillow okay let me open it and then i'm gonna come back hold on all right y'all so this is the donut so let me sit on it and see how it feels i don't know what these are for oh my fucking god this feels so much better than my other butt pillow because my brother other butt pillow it hurts like i hate sitting on it this is so comfortable oh my god and y'all got this off amazon um it is the orthopedic donut cushion so wow this feels so good it feels like a air mattress like what is it therapy a temporary but for your butt so but anyways y'all i'm gonna end this video off i love y'all so much and i will see y'all in the next one


Welcome to August and you and it's all about emotion and it's all about humanity and it's aligning with an energy vibration of the year which is karma. So it's a big karmic month to do with humanity and humanity is all about relationships. So just be aware of all of that and just keep an eye on yourself in regard to what role you are playing in the relationships in your life that are creating upset because we've got full steam ahead energy with a fighting spirit from the first until the 23rd. Now when the 23rd comes in it's going to be time for us to attend to detail. Things are going to fire up on the 5th and the 6th again on the 15th and 16th and followed by the 25th and the 26th. One thing that I find is very very interesting is at the beginning and at the end of the month we've got this really strong idealistic energy that is going to be pushing whatever it is that's going on. Jupiter and the moon will join up on the 8th and stay on the 9th and this is an indication of anything can happen. Now they're going to have a lot of energy vibrations going on to do with very very clear thinking and I'm getting a feeling of black or white that is going to prevail this month with a don't mess with me attitude as the ability to see everything for what it really is will see lines being very very clearly drawn in the sand. As far as relationships are concerned strong protective energy rules or month and add to that a very clear energy vibration around thought processes as far as your life's choices are concerned and that will rule until the 28th. Now when we get into the 28th energy and we start moving beyond that then we're going to look at a more balanced view of everything. This is very much a month where things need to become very grounded and clear as to the life that you want to live. Now I mentioned before about the Jupiter and the moon joining up in the same sign on the 8th. Now it's not very often that I talk about portals however on the 8th of August we're going to have a portal opening and it's called the Lions Gate and this is a very very important time astrologically because it's going to be extremely significant for the whole of humanity. It will open us up to new frequencies giving us opportunities to experience transformation in all areas of our lives. So this is a very very important time to be as clear as possible so that you do not block what you are destined to experience. So it's like what are you destined to do here on the planet? This portal opening is going to support you in finding that but if you have any fears or any negative beliefs that are blocking you and if you are very very single minded just down one way of thinking which has got to do with the left brain which has got to do with the analytical then that is to people that are living that way they're going to find that they're not going to get the full benefit of the opening of this particular portal. Now it will come with a huge energy push and also activation of our DNA. Now at the same time that all of this is taking place we've got a full moon in a queries on the 22nd of August which is going to be really important but another thing this particular month of August of 2023 we're going to have a double full moon. So what does that mean we're going to have two full moons in the same month and what this is wanting this is wanting to push each and every one of us to fully step into our power. Now it's also interesting because the energy vibration of the month is the energy vibration that aligns with the number 6 and the number 6 is the number that applies to the BRICS summit that is going to be held in August as well so a lot going on to do with money around that BRICS summit the money to do with what humanity in the year of karma phenomenal. So I'm going to end up this particular lot of information for you this month with a very very simple statement the universe will give back what you project out to it and that applies to this month of August like up up neon sign neon sign people so please write this out the universe will give back what you project out to it so for you just writing it out the universe will give back what I project out to it and put that sign up on your refrigerator door and just look at it look at it all month to keep you aligned with what your thinking is because whatever your thinking is this month because of the lions great portal opening you are going to create all of that and more in your life so take responsibility get yourself disciplined with your thinking get rid of all of your negativity all of the layers that are blocking you from being who you really are get out of your left brain get into your right brain of creativity and your connection to God and I know that I say this all the time I'm not talking about God to do with the church I am talking about the creator God the creator the real God source energy okay over and out for August and I'll see you in September