“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― The Boscombe Valley Mystery
“Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.”
~John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
You were wrong then, and you're wrong now. You were tendentious then, and you're tendentious now.~John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
We may learn as human beings have always learned — the hard way.
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'Showing and Saying: An Aesthetic Difference' by Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte.
E. F. Mooney on 'Melville’s Moby Dick: Between Philosophy and Literature'.
From 2013, a conversation between E. F. Mooney and Dean Dettloff on 'Philosophical Style, Lyricism, Intimacy'.
The latest issue of Philosophy of Literature has a symposium on "Literature and Moral Vision" (paywall).
Well, at 92 years old and still teaching four days a week, Professor Leon Gabinet is the true embodiment of that.
“I think at 92, I must be the oldest living professor,” Gabinet said, laughing.
News 5 checked with the American Association of University Professors, and while we're told the data around professor's ages isn't maintained, a spokesperson couldn't immediately think of professor above that age still teaching.
Gabinet teaches federal income tax law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law — a place he has been a fixture since 1968. ...
“You would think going into a federal income tax class that it was going to be really dry and boring,” said law student Jess Ice. “But I laugh every class. I just have a great time. He has forgotten more about tax than I’ll ever learn in my life.”