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Nietzsche On Language And Our Pursuit Of Truth, Le Quyen Pham
Nietzsche On Language And Our Pursuit Of Truth, Le Quyen Pham
The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
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Literature And The Passion Of Virtue, Lawrence Kimmel
Literature And The Passion Of Virtue, Lawrence Kimmel
Philosophy Faculty Research
There has always been a reasonable concern that passion constitutes a challenge to the ordeal of civility—that passion and pathology are close cousins if not twin siblings. But in a time and place where political correctness seems to be replacing moral sensibility and political biases are hawked as the morality of family values, it is reasonable to redirect attention to a world of literature in which morality has never been reduced to norms of social currency and where virtue still embodies a passion of commitment that aspires to excellence.
Reconciliation And Harmony: The Philosophical Art Of Tragic Drama, Lawrence Kimmel
Reconciliation And Harmony: The Philosophical Art Of Tragic Drama, Lawrence Kimmel
Philosophy Faculty Research
In the performance of art one can begin at the beginning, but in a discussion of art one must begin somewhere in the middle. Here, it is with the conviction that art, in whatever form, though it may surprise the sense and quicken the spirit, disturb our thinking or revoke a thoughtless ease, still, its full expression restores a sense of presence and wholeness to our being. That is, every art form has a point of closure in a harmony of the spirit. Even tragic drama, which brings the darkness of human character into a glare of recognition and acceptance, …