He quotes Charles Jennings observing (in 2001) a lasting popular tendency 'to use the word Tory as a lazy shorthand for incorrigible villainous arsehole, the cancer in the body of Scottish society'. These 1980s enmities have ... Scott,Hames - 《Soundings A Journal of Politics & Culture》...
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space The astronomer Carl Sagan is one ofmy intellectual heroes, and one of the great secularists of the twentieth century. Almost ten years ago, I posted this video of his—one of the most moving short videos I’ve ever seen. Its message...
Death is not a time for mourning since all Muslims believe death is just the continuation of life in a new form.Popular articles Muslim Funerals: What to Expect Discover what you'll find at an Islamic funeral, including etiquett... Continue reading What to Say When Someone Dies in Islam...
Havingdiscussed the broader context of Śāntideva’s work, I think it is instructive to turn now to the two passages thatEvan Thompson quotes from Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāraas supposed examples of the way that Śāntideva’s “philosophical arguments fall apart” without rebirth. These...
Other Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to t...
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the poem''Mythopoeia''in response to C.S. Lewis' claim that myths are ''Lies breathed through silver.'' Tolkien was the first to coin the termmythopoeia, which combines Greek terms to mean ''myth-making.'' In ''Mythopoeia'', Tolkien argues that rather than being...
Shortly after joining the Theosophical Society, his tutor Ferdinand T. Brooks departed as his tutor. Nehru’s interest in Theosophy soon too vanished and he left society. He wrote for his tutor that “for nearly three years (Brooks) was with me and in many ways, he influenced me greatly...
You probably recognize his name, but you might not know who the infamous Dr. Faustus really is. Keep reading to encounter the key characters and themes in Christopher Marlowe's most notable work! Characters inThe Tragical History of the Life & Death of Doctor Faustus ...
Part 7. The crescendo of upset that has developed in the last50years Part 8. The development of truthless Postmodern Deconstructionism and Political Correctness Part 9. The progression of biological arguments that led to the rise of Critical Theory ...
The Nation of Islam is a quasi-Islamic and Black nationalist movement founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in 1930. His mission was to “teach the downtrodden and defenseless Black people a thorough knowledge of God and of themselves.” The group’s central purpose has alw...