Nevertheless, the seven deadly sins have continued to appeal to the artistic imagination and to engage the attention of people who, in times very different from Pope Gregory's, are still attempting to negotiate their way between temptation and virtue. Examples of contemporary or near-contemporary ...
That eerie silence before a battle. The unpredictability of what’s about to come. The gut-wrenching war sequences. Brutally killed horses. The iciness of death. And the acting brilliance of Joaquin Phoenix. These are sure to shudder ...
Foucault finds one of the key examples of this distrust of parrhesia inIsocrates, at the beginning of the speechOn the Peace(355 BCE, paragraph 13).Here he alludes to orators and poets who say everything about the gods, andwhom the Athenians listen to with complacency. But, according to...
The idea originated from Northern Europe in the 1960s; although it may take different forms within various jurisdictions, co-housing generally refers to “a group of homes that include some shared facilities” to enhance affordability and livability.[99] European examples of co-housing projects ...
“Here the thyroid is enlarged, there the thyroid is reduced in size, here an acceleration, there a slow-down of the heart’s functioning, here a general reduction and there an increase of the skin’s thickness, here the skin is hotter, there colder, here mental agitation, there apathy”...
Ta-hui warned his disciples against making mistakes in carrying out the workp.228of "k'an hua-t'ou "(i.e., koan meditation). Two most commonly committed mistakes are either to try to intellectually understand the koan or to fall into a state of apathy. ...
Nevertheless, he says, this does not lead to Preface ix the degrading of our current life—he points to the medieval saints as well as to Martin Luther King as examples of people who combined a firm belief in the kingdom of heaven with passionate commitment to social justice in the here ...