Last night I went and watched the wonderful new Pixar movie Up with my wonderful girlfriend. It really is an amazing film and I unreservedly recommend it to everyone. You’ll definitely laugh, you’ll probably see your life in a new light, if only for a moment, and you may even cry.
Admittedly, I am a sucker [...]
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Movie Recommendation
Posted in Aesthetics, Aristotle, Beth, David Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Film, Gottfried Leibniz, Henry David Thoreau, Peter Singer, Up on October 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Against Individualism in Ethics
Posted in Ethics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henrik Ibsen, Henry David Thoreau, Love, Marcel Proust, Michel Foucault, New Testament, Oliver O'Donovan, Paul, Samuel Taylor Coleridge on September 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
And so Saint Paul continues, ‘I may speak in tongues of men or of angels, but if I am without love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging symbol. I may have gifts of prophecy, and know every hidden truth; I may have faith strong enough to move mountains; but if I have no [...]
Ethics and Reality – Part 2: Thoreau and Paul’s Reply
Posted in Ethics, Henry David Thoreau, Paul, Tom Wright on July 28, 2009 | 8 Comments »
There is an alternative to Hume’s critique, which is the insistence that we cannot help but be morally affected by the world in which we live, and the more we give ourselves over to feel and see the moral dimensions in life, the more we will see that ethics and reality are inextricably linked. I’ll [...]
Thoreau on Life
Posted in Henry David Thoreau, The Meaning Of Life on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today is the first day of semester, and I’m reminded of a quote I love from Henry David Thoreau. The quote comes from Walden, a book he wrote over a two year period while living a life of simplicity, reflection, stillness, natural education and isolation in a little cabin on the shores of Walden Pond, Massachusetts (picture [...]
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