![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The good must be something final and self-sufficient. Discussion of the philosophical view that there is an Idea of goodĬhapter 7. Discussion of the popular views that the good is pleasure, honour, wealth a fourth kind of life, that of contemplation, deferred for future discussionĬhapter 6. What is required at the start is an unreasoned conviction about the facts, such as is produced by a good upbringingĬhapter 5. The good is generally agreed to be happiness, but there are various views as to what happiness is. The student should have reached years of discretionĬhapter 4. We must not expect more precision than the subject-matter admits. The science of the good for man is politicsĬhapter 3. All human activities aim at some good: some goods subordinate to othersĬhapter 2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle translated by William David Ross īook I: The Good for Man Chapter 1. ![]()
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As in The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown is painting a picture of the disturbing lengths that the Church will go to in order to protect its authority, this time against the inevitable progress of scientific knowledge. But in some ways, it is more than just a novel. This article examines the mythical origins of the conflict metaphor and its employment in a novel by the airport novelist of the moment, Dan Brown.ĭan Brown’s Angels and Demons is a page-turner mystery novel, and has proved a very successful one at that. The idea of the conflict between science and religion is pervasive in our society, particularly in popular literature. ![]() ![]() Larissa Johnson Case #06 - Is Morality a Matter of Fact? Church Dan Brown Natural Philosophy Science & Religion Theology The Myth of Conflict in Angels & Demons ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Kuang.Īuthors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. What's the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American-in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R. ![]() ![]() In the face of racism, murders, addiction, and bombs going off, Gay dares to attempt an exuberant sweetness, to sing in the face of loss. The book starts with an ode to a local fig tree and weaves outward-including in its sweep praise for buttons, compost piles, Gay’s father’s ashes, insects, the birds, Gay’s feet, Gay’s neighbors, and the world. Circling this plot, Gay’s poems burst forth in leggy, unexpected ways-zooming in on “legs furred with pollen” or soil “breast stroking into the xylem.” This is why I was so grateful to read Ross Gay’s messy, juicy collection about his life as a community orchardist, helping to raise pawpaws and persimmons in an orchard the public can tend and also pick. Sometimes, in this age of irony, disillusionment, and moral outrage, it is hard to find convincing language for praise, or space for praising at all. Today, NBCC board member Tess Taylor on poetry finalist Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press).Ĭatalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay (University of Pittsburgh Press) ![]() ![]() In the days leading up to the March 17 announcement of the 2015 NBCC award winners, Critical Mass highlights t he thirty finalists. ![]() ![]() ![]() This seemingly minor incident brought an end to a nearly four-decade saga of exile, imprisonment, and survival and years of diplomatic wrangling. ![]() ![]() After a tense exchange with customs officials, the man and his family were grudgingly permitted to board a flight to Vienna. On December 21st, 1971, while serving at the American embassy in Moscow, he escorted a nervous man through the Sheremetyevo International Airport. In the interview, he recounted his career in the foreign service, and one case in particular that defined it. Some of them survived despite the hell of the Gulag prison camps and told their stories.īuried within the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection at the United States Library of Congress is an interview with a man named Peter Swiers. In the next decade many of these people would perish in the waves of politically motivated communist repressions. Henry Prown (a PhD candidate in American Studies from the College of William & Mary) brings to light the faith of Americans, who engaged in a largely forgotten mass migration to the communist USSR in the early 1930s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He finds a greedy audience in his writer grandson. “Ninety percent of everything he ever told me about his life, I heard during its final ten days,” says his grandson, a novelist named “Mike.” In that brief span, the grandfather pours out the choicest anecdotes from his childhood, the war, his marriage to a Holocaust survivor and his career as an aerospace engineer. The grandfather-we know him by no other name-shares these stories from his deathbed, under the influence of powerful pain medication. Years later, a widower living in Florida, he courted an elderly neighbor by hunting the escaped python she thought had eaten her cat. In 1957, he watched the rocket that launched Sputnik burn across the night sky from the rooftop of a New York prison, where he was serving 20 months for choking his boss with a telephone handset. (they were demonstrating a point about the country’s vulnerability to enemy attack). ![]() During World War II, Wild Bill Donovan recruited him into the OSS after he and a fellow soldier were caught planting explosives under the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Washington, D.C. Here are a few things we learn about Michael Chabon’s grandfather in “Moonglow.” As a Philadelphia teenager in the 1930s, he had his first sexual experience with a sideshow hermaphrodite. Army testing captured V-2 Rockets at White Sands, New Mexico, in 1946. ![]() ![]() ![]() Among those who might have pushed him: his shifty roommate, his colleague's scheming spouse and a disgruntled broker with a craving for cash. And don't you think that the last person you see on this earth owes you something?" Given her affinity for applied ethics, questions of conscience are a daily concern for Isabel, and the more she thinks about Fraser's fall, the less accidental it seems. "I was the last person that young man saw," Dalhousie tells her beloved niece, Cat. ![]() When Isabel witnesses fund manager Mark Fraser fall from a balcony after a performance at an Edinburgh concert hall, she feels obliged to investigate the gentleman's demise. McCall Smith's new heroine is Scottish-American philosopher Isabel Dalhousie, a single woman of independent means who edits the esteemed Review of Applied EthicsĪnd presides over the titular club. ![]() Murder and moral obligation mingle in this whimsical new series from the author of the smash hit The No. ![]() ![]() ![]() Given that Avelynn essentially lives as a 21st century woman in medieval times, it naturally comes as something of a shock when she learns that her father has betrothed her to Demas without her having much say in the matter. Despite the fact that she lives in 9th century Wessex, she has no problem stepping up to the plate to help her father, the earl, make big decisions. At some point in the story, she even becomes a high priestess.Īvelynn is also strong-willed and determined. Despite being the daughter of a high-ranking Saxon, she inexplicably practices what appears to be some form of Celtic druidic religion. Remember now that she’s Saxon because pretty much nothing else in the plot signals her as such. ![]() So, who is Avelynn? Well, despite her improbable name, she is the daughter of a Saxon noble. That, in a nutshell, describes Avelynn, quite possibly the worst Viking romance I’ve ever read. ![]() ![]() Where do I even start with the book? It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I read a book that has so many less-than-redeeming qualities contained within its pages that I scarcely know where to begin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of four half-hour episodes, Berger lays out his own iconoclastic interpretation of a specific tradition in European painting - a tradition which, he claims, was born during the height of the Italian Renaissance, and died when the advent of the camera began to push painters from naturalism towards abstraction.Īssembled in his parents’ living room, Berger’s stimulating program was met with rave reviews upon release. ![]() Ways of Seeing, which premiered on the BBC in 1972, was edited in a rapid and ephemeral style reminiscent of Orson Welles’ video essay about Hungarian art forger Elmyr de Hory: F for Fake. Now, in the second half of the 20th century, because we see these paintings as nobody saw them before.” “Tonight,” he says as he attempts to isolate the figure of Venus from the rest of the image, “it isn’t so much about the paintings themselves I want to consider, as the way we now see them. In the opening scene of his television show Ways of Seeing, John Berger - a British critic, painter, and author - uses a boxcutter to methodically slice and dice his way through the canvas containing Sandro Botticelli’s Venus and Mars. ![]() |