The Thing Your Character Wants, or the Want, is the term I use throughout my teachings to reference the specific fulcrum upon which character arc turns. The Want is contrasted against a Need (see the last section in this post) to form the basis of the character’s inner conflict. The W...
"The word depravity, relating as it here does to man's moral character, means the same as sinfulness, being the opposite of moral purity, or holiness. In this use of the word there is a general agreement. But what is the meaning of native, or natural? Among the variety of meanings s...
Nothing can corrupt and disintegrate a culture or a man’s character as thoroughly as does the precept of moral agnosticism, the idea that one must never pass moral judgment on others, that one must be morally tolerant of anything, that the good consists of never distinguishing good from evi...
[translate] asee the changes myself 看变动 [translate] a个人清洁用品 Personally clean thing [translate] a她为我们作出了榜样,发扬了中国传统的优秀品德 She has made the example for us, has carried forward the Chinese tradition outstanding personal character [translate] ...
92 Aristotle distinguishes three kinds of friendship: advantage friendship, pleasure friendship and character friendship. Advantage friendship works to the personal advantage of the friends involved, pleasure friendship is based on the pleasure it gives the friends, and character friend- ship is based ...
With reference to teachers it constitutes a personal pattern of judicious acting. Their special task is not only to teach necessary knowledge to students but also to instil moral conduct in them i.e. to form ‘a correct character’. This notion was present at the beginning of the 20t...
The problem is that they feel that she has had a clean image, with no question on her character … So how to bring her down?’ Women are adamant that they are denied the party ticket not on account of a lack of public support, but because men do not want women to get ahead....
By saying ‘and not like’ (Line 11), she enters into a stylised performance (Goodwin and Alim, 2010) in which she, as ‘the speaker act[s] ‘in character’ rather than as [her] situated self’ (Streeck, 2002, p. 581). Thus, she mockingly ‘foot[s]’ (Goffman, 1981) the ...
The problem in Africa is not so much uneducated ignorance as it is willful ignorance. Few better exemplify this second kind than the leaders of South Africa, one of the countries most ravaged by AIDS. Thabo Mbeki, the former president, despite an otherwise mannerly and intellectual character, ...
Indeed, isn’t interconnectivity, how things are related, from the “thermodynamic miracle” that was Laurie’s very existence, to the possibility at the very end that a pimply doofus in a right-wing magazine might by sheer “chance” explode Ozymandias’ scheme, that a character in a pirate...