Self and Soul A Defense of Ideals
doggerel: “Throughout all Eternity / I forgive you[,] you forgive me / As our dear Redeemer said / This the Wine & this the ...
nuns there, a collection of lay workers in Africa or Asia: there are still magnifi cent exemplars of the teachings of Jesus thro ...
life of compassion, perhaps the most consistently rewarding of the ideals, is available to all of us, beginning now. This study ...
Shakespeare helps change our sense of human life and human promise through an almost complete rejection of ideals. Like his cont ...
without driving forward to conclusions. But in fact, Shakespeare’s work is alive with values— they simply echo the anti- idealis ...
Freud, we are often told, is obsolete. Yes and no. The war he en- listed in against ideals seems all but over. Freud’s middle- c ...
delude themselves in love, Eros is another ideal bound to fail. Like the ideals of courage and compassion, the ideal of love is ...
fi llment of ideals. The State of Soul, when perfectly realized, is united, fully pre sent, and in a certain manner exists outsi ...
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What is better: a short heroic life that brings glory or a long peaceful existence full of humane contentment? For the majority ...
20 Ancient Ideals dissent. Some of them want to live for the joy that seeking honor can bring. They want their names to live for ...
The Hero 21 an enhanced sense of self. He feels a fullness and unity of being be- cause of what he is and what he has done. Befo ...
22 Ancient Ideals rulers and invariably distrusts rebels. Achilles puts his sword back into its scabbard and gives way to Agamem ...
The Hero 23 Mo ther! You gave me life, short as that life will be, so at least Olympian Zeus, thundering up on high, should give ...
24 Ancient Ideals on diff erent sides in the war between the Greeks and Trojans, and matters come quickly to the point where Zeu ...
The Hero 25 The existence of Yahweh in his sublime otherness is an ongoing statement about the limitations (and the inadequacy) ...
26 Ancient Ideals brown. Achilles in his wrath is like a lion, being hunted by the men of a village, feeling his might and about ...
The Hero 27 Nature endorses, and this causes an ongoing sense of dislocation. The contemporary individual is not at home in the ...
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