Word: augustinian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central trouble seems simply that too many parents have forgotten that freedom gains meaning from restraint. In this they are creatures of their times. For thousands of years, various, and very different, definitions of freedom -- Aristotelian, Cartesian, Augustinian, Kantian -- have all related freedom to significant choice. Over the past 20 years, the idea of freedom has evolved like a mutated animal, involving the absence not only of significant choice but of moral or rational restraints. Without a context of limitations, freedom has become dangerous and meaningless. If freedom has no restraints and embraces everything, then it risks becoming tyranny, since...
...ancient Hippo, where Augustine served as priest and bishop, the occasion is being largely ignored. But in other places around the world, numerous conferences on Augustine's thought are marking the anniversary, including last week's assemblage of 500 scholars from 19 nations at the Rome headquarters of the Augustinian order. One notable in attendance, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican's doctrinal overseer, says that through Augustine "I learned to believe, to know faith and to love the church...
That understated response to the greatest honor in science was typical of the intensely private, no-nonsense researcher. Genetics is a science founded by a monk-19th century Augustinian Gregor Mendel-and McClintock is in every sense his disciple. For half a century she has labored in almost monastic solitude over her patch of Indian corn, or maize, much as Mendel did in his famous pea patch. In an era when most scientific work is done by large research teams, McClintock did not even have a laboratory assistant. ("Excuse me for being hoarse," she once told a scientist who stopped...
Young Bill was the class valedictorian and a standout athlete at Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, Calif. He entered Stanford University in 1949 but found it "disagreeable." After a difficult year, he dropped out and enrolled in an upstate New York Augustinian seminary. Allowed only five hours of sleep a night and two hours of conversation in the afternoon, Clark decided the priesthood was not his calling. He tried to return to Stanford, but as he recalls, "the dean was good enough to tell me that I should consider some other line of activity...