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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Identity & Personhood In Ancient Rome: The Specificity Of Christian Ethics vs. The Eros Of Selfish Property
This blog has dealt sufficiently with the concept of ‘The Specificity of Christian Ethics’ at great length, it cannot be ignored how secular life itself is a perversion of Christianity. This insight will move into greater relief as the West … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Antiquity, Ethics, Identity Development, John Paul II, Sexual Ethics, Theology
Tagged Dasen, Henry the Navigator, Human Identity, Islam, Laes, Legal Positivism, Mediterranean, Personhood, Pincer Movement, Positivism, Roman Childhood, Roman Empire, Sexual Ethics, Silver Mines, specificity of christian ethics, Statius
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Explorers Of The Nile: Victorian Triumph & Tragedy
Africa was always dubbed ‘The Dark Continent’. This sobriquet never referred to pigment of skin, instead it referred to the impenetrable geography that immediately arises from the sands of both East and West Africa. Prior to the invention of the … Continue reading
Posted in Arnold Toynbee, Charles Mackay's Delusions & Mania's, Frontier, Measure the Earth
Tagged Alexander Maitland, Dark Continent, Henry Morton Stanley, John Speke, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Livingstone, Nile, Richard Burton, Tim Jeal, Victorian Explorers
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James Joyce: The Irish Modernist
Only someone with a classical education can understand what motivated James Joyce, for the modernist within him resisted any neat clarification. Perhaps Samuel Becket alone was capable of residing in a world inhabited by Joyce. How else to say it: … Continue reading
Posted in Identity Development, Poets, Uncategorized
Tagged biogrpahy, James Joyce, Jung, Lucia, modernist, Nora
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Theodore Forstmann: The Last Great American Financier
American financiers are unloved these days, but with the death of Theodore Forstmann on Sunday, November 20, 2011 at the young age of 71 much is to be remembered. Theodore Forstmann made his financial mark in the early 1980’s as … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Education, Elias Canetti, Money
Tagged 1980's money, American Financier, LBO, Leverage Buyout, Theodore Forstmann
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