Mary Midgley (1981) Trying Out One's New Sword, in Heart.
In the article “Trying Out One’s New Sword,” what does Mary Midgley use example of the samurai to illustrate? It’s not necessarily wrong to apply standards and values from our own culture when considering another culture. People who object to making moral judgments about other cultures typically do so by making positive moral judgments about those cultures. To refuse to apply moral.
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Trapped in the wrong trouser-leg of time. By Charlie Stross. So it's time I faced facts: I've been writing this blog for seventeen years and it is getting bloody difficult to come up with stuff to say. (At least, right now.) My usual book launch promo stuff last month was derailed totally by family circumstances (that won't recur). I really don't feel like kvetching about politics, either the.
The UNESCO engineer Walter Faber sets out on a multi-stage journey from New York to Venezuela, where he is to supervise the assembly of some turbines. Owing to a series of technological mishaps, and impulsive decisions that he cannot wholly account for, his journey is diverted for several days in the central American desert and jungle. Faber's rationalist faith in technology and progress.
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Gild of the Blessed Mary.. and new ones have been inserted: the list of architects and their principal works has been removed from the glossary and re-compiled, the list of architectural publications has been enlarged, and formed into a separate list, while the glossary itself has received numerous additional terms and illustrations, together with such other amendments as appeared desirable.
Mary Midgley is one of the great ornaments of contemporary philosophy, a graceful, clear, penetrating and sensible thinker and writer. So I expected to enjoy, and be enlightened by, her Evolution as a Religion and, mostly, it was so. The book was originally published in 1985 and is now republished in a revised edition. It is a critique of the tendency for evolution to take over the functions.