Searching in Anguish
Filed in Philosophy, February 25, 2008, 12:08 pm by admin“I blame equally those who decide to praise man, those who blame him, and those who want to be diverted. I can only approve those who search in anguish.”
(Blaise Pascal. Pensées, “Liasse Titles,” 24 [Oxford, 1995], p. 8 )
It seems that Pascal has pretty much got it covered when it comes to judging [...]
Is Beauty in the Soul of the Beholder?
Filed in Philosophy, February 18, 2008, 2:45 pm by adminThe cliché, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” is probably either trivially true (there can be no perception of beauty without sense organs) or else obviously false (the same thing could turn out to be both beautiful and non-beautiful). But what if we said that beauty is in the soul of the beholder? [...]
Scone Mare and Foal (Gabriel Sterk)
Filed in Philosophy, February 4, 2008, 3:39 am by admin
Some shots of the “Scone Mare and Foal”, by Gabriel Sterk, unveiled 3 March 1982. Bronze, 1.4 tonnes, 1.7m high and 2.2m long. Seems to be a lot of butt…
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