Book 3 shows the kind of world that will come into being when men and women act to please themselves, when they know what it means to please themselves truly.

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• All of Book 2 may be understood as the definition of those living processes which occur when people learn to, or know how to, please themselves.claim0.806
  Retrospective reinterpretation of the second volume through the lens of pleasing yourself.
• People do not know—emotionally—how to please themselves. In part, they are prevented by society. And in part, they are prevented by themselves, by their inner thought police.claim0.774
  Diagnosis of why living structure is absent from the world: a failure of emotional knowledge enforced by social and internal constraints.
• To please yourself, you may have to make a thing in which God is visible.claim0.747
  The troubling consequence of true self-pleasing: it produces beauty so deep it reveals the divine, which makes modern people uncomfortable.
• The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.745
  Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.
• Part III: Explaining Human Action: Why Dynamics Tell Us That Stories Are Necessaryconcept0.744
  Epistemological consequence: shows why narrative explanation is necessary for explaining self-organizing action (Chapters 14–15).
• The structure described in these four books is a mirror of the human heart, giving you a key to unlock your own heart.claim0.741
• 'What do they look like?' and 'Where did they come from?' are even worse guides to moral relationships with forthcoming beings than they have always been between humans.claim0.739
  Argues that physical appearance and origin (evolved vs. engineered) are inadequate bases for moral concern
• We may then arrive at a picture of the world which includes the self, and which clearly recognizes the personal nature of the universe.claim0.739
  The outcome of using both methods together.