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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Writers, Like Other Mendicants and Mountebanks
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Paradox has been defined as "Truth standing on her head to attract attention." Paradox has been defended; on the ground that so ma...
A Buddhist Parable
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A man set out on a journey to sit at the feet of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, who lived on a far mountain. It was a long journey and he was an...
Friday, August 26, 2011
Music on My Mind
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historyteachers, "Chinese Dynasties." They have a number of good ones, including one for Thomas Aquinas *, but I think this is t...
MacIntyre on Philosophy and Universities
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Philosophy is in any case a social and not a solitary form of enquiry. It requires a setting in which different and rival answers to philos...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Detection Club Ten Commandments
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Another thing for which Ronald Knox is famous is the 'Ten Commandments' he proposed for the Detection Club: I. The criminal mu...
Sherlockismus
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Monsignor Ronald Knox died on this day in 1957. From his classic 1912 essay, Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes : There is a spe...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Paradox of Suspense
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I've talked before about the paradox of fiction , about the paradox of tragedy , about a possible paradox of comedy ,and about the para...
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