Word: cartesian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great artist been more cavalierly treated by American museums than Georges Braque? Here is one of the great pioneers of modern painting: the man who, with Picasso, invented cubism; who then painted some of the most exquisitely felt and wrought pictures of our century; in whom the classicist, Cartesian strain in French painting came to a peak. Yet the last proper American survey of Braque (1882-1963) was almost 40 years ago. Since then there have been shows, very beautiful ones (how could they not be?), of this or that aspect of Braque. But the whole elephant? Never...
...Cartesian: absolutely evil...
...That broccoli and cheese pasta was Cartesian...
...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...
Revolutions in Science is a book readily comprehensible to the layman Cohen has synthesized complicated scientific concepts such as quantum theory and Cartesian metaphysics, making them not only palatable but engaging. Revolutions in Science does not offer a revolution in itself. Yet Cohen's superb scholarship, his eloquent synthesis of hundreds of year of critical thought fits Alexander Pope's perception of wit; his book contains ideas "which have often been thought but never before been so well expressed...