The piano players in the room

Commencement and William James's goal of a college education

Constructional method ala Carnap, Goodman, Aristotle, Maslow.
(oughtness of the best questioned, then accepted if survives criticism)

How to apply the findings.

The statue in the WU library reserve reading room

Possibilities, the sculpture as its sculptor's model, self as task, as project.
The haunting why weren't you you question from the Hasidic tale/& or selection from Buber's The Way of Man According to the Teachings of the Hasidim  (Citadel Press, 1994).

The importance of understanding the limits and possibilities presented by the material (Lao Tzu/Buber).

Bruce Ching, the secret of the marital arts according to Jou  Tsung Hwa; application of the secrets (investigation of the possibilities, practice.

DeWitt's Samurai.

 . . . the piano players in the room

Some authors to look at in connection with this, Aristotle (Ethics), de Beauvoir (Ethics of Ambiguity,  The Second Sex),

Octavia E. Butler's essay "Furor Scribendi" in Bloodchild and Other Stories.
George Leonard,   Mastery (New York:  Penguin/Plume,1992).
Dave Lowry, Autumn Lightning, and other works.
Amdur, Ellis.  Dueling with O-Sensei: Grappling with the Myth of the Warrior Sage (www.ellisamdur.com), and other works.
Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai.
Nelson Goodman, Ways of Worldmaking, and other works.
Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature.
Jou  Tsung Hwa, The Dao of Taijiquan.