On the Origin and Nature of Power

The Truth. The Real. The Moral. The Ethical. I define Morality to be a statement of right and wrong based on a central idea. It is an intentionally simple, easily understood, and dualistic model of the universe. It is wrong: that is, it is false and untrue. More so, in reality, it is multi-layered, rippling out from that central idea into hundreds of smaller ideas for which there is still a ...

Artist Statement Wow!

My students rock. Want to read a great artist statement from one of them? Jeremy D. Artist Statement My philosophy, is that the most beautiful thing about art, is that we have all our lives in which to perfect it. Techniques, in my mind at least, are more like little tricks of the trade, some unique and some far ...

[FIC] Auld Lang Syne (R) for Twodromance

...flatly. Though it didn't seem like much, Dean's flat admission spoke volumes and the bald statement startled Castiel. He looked at Dean briefly and looked away just as quickly - the expression in ...fairly scalded him. "And?" questioned Castiel. "One less mouth to feed - isn't that your philosophy?" "This is different," snapped Dean with a flash of rage that Castiel could feel scrape against the ...

... the second time. “Fat and happy” is a myth, a monstrous lie, and I thoroughly endorse Kate’s statement. I don’t eat anything like as much as I’d like to — despite eating for a living — ... in mind is one of the defining mental strengths of the human. As such, Kate’s apparently simple philosophy is wonderfully advanced and extremely timely. To every action there is a consequence, that is all she is ...

ACCEPTANCE

...from the outset of the text with the statement "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I ...purpose is very apparent in twentieth century literature, philosophy and art. Liberal humanism finds it impossible to...it is possible to make any absolutely true statement. To add to this, there is a .... Consider this comment from the historian of philosophy, Jacques Barzun: "Some critics have concluded that the...

Another Beginning [PG-13] for anglicwitch

...her head, “but I can’t.” “But how can you live with constant disappointment? At least with my philosophy, there’s a slight chance of being pleasantly surprised.” “I need to at least trust my friends. In ... don’t suppose you know how my mother’s doing,” he says, the inflection an odd mixture of statement and question. “I haven’t heard anything about her. I’m sorry, Malfoy.” And she hopes he can...

Fanfiction: Guns, Keys, and Other Loves

..., who sent it to the regional Director of Witness Security. In every letter and email correspondence was the statement, "Don't take her weapon away, but if you let her run her own show, you'll see she...That's what I told Brenda, only without the theoretical tone and all the big words. I think your philosophy of life is why use a simple word when a more complicated one will make your opponent's head ...

Position Opening at Seton Hill University for Genre Novelist

... 4/4 teaching responsibilities; half of course load will serve undergraduate English and Composition instruction. Send a letter, C.V., official transcripts, statement of teaching philosophy, sample publications, and three letters of reference to Michael Arnzen (arnzen@setonhill.edu), Ph.D., Seton Hill University, ...

Pico, Magic, Cabala -- tons of old notes from Copenhaver, Idel, CW, etc.

...Neoplatonic theurgy. 74 natural magic like philosophy as preparation for theurgy 70 Alemanno... the utter perfection of natural philosophy"[3]   Copenhaver, Brian. "Who Wrote ... further systematized by Aquinas, that philosophy plays an important role in ...s Cabala. 15 Theology, spirituality and philosophy – all in the broadest sense ... Bonaventure n.40 Pico's statement... seems analagous to Alemanno's ...

Philosophy links

... the absolute source of values…. About Marxism as intellectual fashion statement : It is a relief to turn from this pap to ... and Gesellschaft (civil society).… Modern moral psychology and moral philosophy has been largely dominated by the psychology of Gesellschaft , ... can see the beginnings of a rhetorical tradition of moral philosophy and moral psychology that runs through Cicero to Hume. …...