Self and Soul A Defense of Ideals
48 Ancient Ideals But the fi nal book also returns us to Hector and asks us to con- sider again his status in the poem. He is a ...
The Hero 49 warriors, to the Mongol horse men, to the Samurai, and to the fi ghters in pre- Columbian Mexico and Central Ame ric ...
50 Ancient Ideals says Nietz sche, “for work is a form of entertainment. But one is careful lest the entertainment be too harrow ...
The Iliad is a great poem of aristocracy— natu ral aristocracy, Homer’s heroes believe, and overall the poem confi rms them. Hom ...
52 Ancient Ideals clear what the destiny will be. Two roads open before him, not en- tirely unlike the roads that opened before ...
The Saint 53 my destiny? Will sickness befall me as well? Yes, in all likelihood it will, the servant admits. And there is worse ...
54 Ancient Ideals deliver others, from the frustration of human life. Gautama re- solves that he w ill take up this quest. He de ...
The Saint 55 no—he is off to found an aristocracy of spirit, an aristocracy that all may join. Gautama’s spiritual quest does no ...
56 Ancient Ideals when by pressing on his belly, he can feel his backbone behind him. He subsists on six or seven grains of rice ...
The Saint 57 security, long life— these goals mean virtually nothing to him when he pursues and embodies the warrior ideal. The ...
58 Ancient Ideals the streets of Rome in Caesar’s triumph. She imagines herself being parodied on the stage, by a prepubescent m ...
The Saint 59 profession should I take up? Shall I move from the country to the town? He is renowned for having a cool head; he h ...
60 Ancient Ideals other, perhaps more subtle, teachings to dispense. Buddhism is es- sentially a godless religion, if it is a re ...
The Saint 61 each other, as they should with all living things. For everyone’s road is a hard one. A latter- day Buddhist teache ...
62 Ancient Ideals there is one life for all, that we live in the midst of one miraculous being, and that to harm another being i ...
The Saint 63 masses of China. The countryside around him is violent, and in time it will grow much more so. The noble chariot- f ...
64 Ancient Ideals theme of Confucius. Compassion is the most antihierarchical of re- ligious concepts. In it, there is nothing o ...
The Saint 65 Asked what he would do as a ruler, Confucius says that fi rst he would feed the people and then he would make them ...
66 Ancient Ideals In Confucius’ thinking, veneration for the past and for the vir- tuous ancestors may be even stronger. To live ...
The Saint 67 belongs to him; he watches serenely as his inferiors are promoted beyond him. He simply does his best, and if his h ...
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