The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary. —Walter Lippmann 10 There canno...
all six novels" (Religious Dimension, 128 n.27).Thomas Beattie, on the other hand, arguesthat while Austen is both a classical and a Christian moralist, it is only in Emma that she synthe-sizes the two traditions (From Pride and Prejudice to Emma: A Study of Jane Austen as Moralist)....
Thomas Hardy too melodramatic. And we have to remind ourselves that it is necessary to approach every writer differently in order to get from him all he can give us. We have to remember that it is one of the qualities of greatness that it brings heaven...
“My intellect wasn’t shaped in the glory of transcendent questions but ratherin response to the insidious systems of oppression,” she writes. “In this sense, I am a woman thinker.” Not all women philosophers would agree with this. But Ms. Penaluna also finds, in her chosen thinkers,...
the next 28 years, he conducted hundreds of interviews with Malcolm’s friends, family, acquaintances, allies and enemies, tirelessly working to tease out the truth behind what he described as the much-mythologized figure’s journey “from street criminal to devoted ...
At all events, to prohibit the play is to protect the evil which the play exposes; and in view of that fact, I see no reason for assuming that the prohibitionists are disinterested moralists, and that the author, the managers, and the performers, who depend for their livelihood on their...
Moralists use it: "One should not kill", "One should be ready to fight for one’s country", etc. French uses "on" without the slightest embarrassment. In fact, using it prevents a lot of embarrassment. For example, a key problem in English is avoiding "genderism". This is the ...
approach to assist “individuals in achieving a lasting dietary behaviour change that is beneficial for health” (2016) and Bush et al. state, “experts agree that the goal of PN is to advance human health and wellbeing by tailoring nutrition recommendations and interventions to individuals or ...
The cabalists, Hassidim, and the less-known practitioners of "Mussar" (moralists) were more influenced by Zen and Raja Yoga than appears at first sight. A whole series of methods of suggestion and hypnosis (whether of many people or of a single ...
A moralist rejection of the debate is simplex, with the consequence in a democracy of making the rejected seem cool, a martyr. That is how a fascist can come to look like the underdog, and might attract others disgusted with the muzzling of voices. My frame is that of an intersection...