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a world that holds such beauty
Imagine being asked to sacrifice everything you hold dear for the safety of someone you love. In P.S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, the protagonist is faced with this very challenge. The Unicorn lived in a Lilac Wood, where it was
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a graceful bearing | thoughts on plutarch’s life of solon
“We must not provide against the loss of wealth by poverty, or of friends by refusing all acquaintance, or of children by having none, but by morality and reason.” Is it right to protect against the pain of loss
nicomachean ethics
“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.” So begins the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, a piercing and detailed examination of human nature and the ethical life. It is human
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education in the republic of plato
What is education? What is its goal, its primary purpose in our lives? And how should it be accomplished? While the major theme of Plato’s Republic is centered around justice, a powerful underlying current of the importance of a true
once upon a porch swing
At the edge of a starlit forest, alone in a dusky glen, is a porch swing. It is a cozy little chair, hanging there in the dusty-blue clearing, swinging from an overhanging tree branch. Moss is carpeting the floor underfoot
the republic of plato
What is justice? How is it established and maintained, both in societies and in individuals? What are the characteristics of a just city, a just man and a just regime? And perhaps most poignantly, what does justice profit us in
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