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Tag Archives: Ayn Rand
moses: the comic within the cosmic
Theologians as well as philosophers, have long analyzed Truth and Goodness. Theology though, unlike philosophy, has neglected serious scrutiny of the study of Beauty and Aesthetics, and has grappled, disconcertingly, with humor. The biblical figure of Moses cuts across the … Continue reading
A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?
Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Ayn Rand, chuck berry, Euripides, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Homer, Homer The Odyssey, Jim Morrison The Doors, Keith Richards, lester bangs, Mick Jagger, robert christgau, robert palmer, ruth benedict, Stravinsky, Titian
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Orwell: cracked mirrors and memory holes
The mental disease of imagination…Twenty-seven years after the fateful year of 1984, we are still fascinated by George Orwell’s dystopic vision of rationalism gone mad, stark raving mad. There is always the temptation to measure how cold we are willing … Continue reading
Its a rebuilt , just like new… almost
B. F. Skinner claimed that man could no longer afford to be free and must submit himself, his behavior and his culture to outside control for the greater good of society as a whole. But he was just reflecting a … Continue reading
THE DARK SIDE OF THE NOON: Nanny State Lullabies
Or are the Golden Days at hand? A gilded age where civilization can be disposed of? Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. Is the eclipse coming to a country near you? Does what goes around eventually come around? …… As … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Applebaum, Anne C. Heller, Arthur Koestler, Ayn Rand, Bill Clinton, Charllie Fidelman, Christopher Caldwell, Cristian Mungiu, Daphne Hardy, David Cesarini, George Orwell, Jean Paul Sartre, Ken Starr, Kenneth Starr, Liam Lacey, Michael Scammell, Michael Schaub, Monica Lewinsky, Nat Hentoff, Richard Crossman, Sidney Blumenthal, Solzhenitysn, Timothy Leary, Tom Blackwell, Vanessa Farquharson, Whittaker Chambers, William James, William Skidelsky
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WRETCHED DESIRES: “WEEP FOR THE SAVIOR NOT THE SEDUCER”
Peter Abelard. An impudent nuisance to his contemporaries, a romantic figment later, and perhaps our first free man. “By doubting, we come to inquire and by inquiry we arrive at truth”. The church has never quite understood Abelard to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abelard, Abelard and Héloise, Angelica kauffman, Angelica Kauffmann, Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Bernard of Clairvaux, Calvinism, D'Agesci Bernard, Diana Rigg, Héloise, Henry Adams, James Burge, James E. Kiefer, Jay Atkinson, John Mason Neale, Paul Kavanagh, Peter Abelard, Pierre Abélard, Plato, Ross Fiddes, Thomas Aquinas, Tristan, Wagner Tristan, William of Champeaux
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