after norman established himself as a leader in social party daniel bell wrote an essay about him. there are famous distinctions between ethics of responsibility. the problem with thomas is he lived his life -- he thought the state should have an ethics of conscious. i don't think that is fair. i think he is more alert to the compromises that a government is supposed to make. i think the story of the brothers does illustrate the limits and dangers of thinking too much about how to be true to yourself instead of what obligations you have to other people. that was something that norman was left with at the time. after a hunger strike, he wrote evan a letter in which he said no man listens to himself. the real challenge is to live among other people and to fight for might and to make sure they have the opportunities that you have so they,, too, can be true to themselves. he basically had -- he was coming out of the, you know, protestant background in which certain amount was ultimate statement of ethics. it was a balancing act. how do you live according to your conscious? they talked

[ applause ] >> reporter: daniel jacobs stepped into the ring, a world title on the line. [ bell ] >>toughest fight. that came about three years ago. >> that's how i looked at cancer. i looked at it as an opponent. >> reporter: when doctors diagnosed jacobs with a rare type of bone cancer, he barely heard a word. one sentence stuck out -- >> the only thing i remember was, "i don't think you'll be able to box again, daniel." it was mind-blowing. >> reporter: the cancer left him partially paralyzed. losing boxing, he says, broke his heart. jacobs did what he knows best -- he turned to his training. >> you got to get back up. you got to continue to fight. >> reporter: through therapy and radiation, jacobs built back his strength all the way to the top of his middleweight division. he wasn't given the nickname "miracle man," he earned it. >> working the body -- >> reporter: saturday night in his hometown of brooklyn, he again came out swinging. >> fletcher in the corner and down he goes. daniel jacobs, who went through 25 rounds of radiation treatment -- >> reporter: took five rounds to g