Siris

His mind was destitute of that dread which has been erroneously decried as if it were nothing higher than a man's animal care for his ow...

But even among the synonyms of our own tongue we cannot ignore the imaginative charge of words without being monstrous. You might, for examp...

Comments on a post that I found in the most recent Teaching Carnival have started me thinking about the love poetry of Robert Herrick , w...

Julian Baggini has an unfortunately confused little musing on sin in The Guardian (HT: Butterflies and Wheels ). In it he says: Sin is as ...

Here's a slight reworking of an old translation I made of Sor Juana's "En que da moral censura a una rosa, y en ella a sus seme...

According to Hume, it would be a string instrument, at least with regard to the passions: Now if we consider the human mind, we shall find, ...

The new trailer for Shyamalan's Lady in the Water (uses QuickTime). I confess myself intrigued. If you haven't seen Season One of C...