Throne, Altar, Liberty
Saturday, August 27, 2011
This and That No. 16: De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est
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Today is the final day of the state funeral for Jack Layton who passed away from cancer on Monday. It is only a few months since the electi...
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Things which Inspire Love and Awe
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“A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful” by Edmund Burke, pp. 7-140 in Edmund Burke (Harvard Clas...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
What is Beauty?
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Beauty is the only finality here below . – Simone Weil Art is the production of things which are beautiful. Beauty is what the artist s...
Saturday, August 6, 2011
The History of Human Creativity
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Art: A New History by Paul Johnson, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003, 777 pages, No single volume could ever properly do justice to ...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
What is Art?
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Art in the singular, is a more difficult concept to grasp and to define, than that of the arts plural. We can arrive at a fairly reasonable...
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Monday, August 1, 2011
What is Culture?
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Notes towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot, London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1948, 1962, 124 pages. Culture is a word that we...
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