Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This practical reason can only be understood, Blanshard claimed, "if we take off the distorting spectacles of technological advance." Tracing the development of various ethical systems from their Greek and Judaic sources, he noted that a conflict between reason and feeling has constantly plagued philosophy. Clarks versus Shaftesbury, Hume versus Kant, and, more recently, the emotivists and imperativists versus the deontologists--all represent in their ethical controversies a form of the basic reason-feeling conflict...
...supernatural goings-on in Homer. He considers Pallas-Odysseus' patron and therefore responsible for the workings of the hero's mind-to have her near equivalent in the Holy Ghost of the Christian Trinity. Here, too, may be seen the theological base of the incandescent Greek intelligence: faith and reason live together...
...years' hard labor, has served to give real distinction to this translation. Fitzgerald is the latest of a long line of poets and scholars-from Pope and Cowper to T. E. Lawrence and A. T. Murray-who, with varying fortune, have tried to make good English of good Greek, or in his words from the poem, to "tell us in our time, lift the great song again." Each generation must do it in its own idiom. If there is missing "like ocean on the Western beach/The surge and thunder of the Odyssey" (in Translator Andrew Lang's phrase...
...still turns up around here, a soldier, a seaman, an old bum or something." Fitzgerald did not crowd his scholar's luck by asking any questions, but accepted gratefully this intimation that Homer's world was not dead-nor his Odysseus-in the hearts of the modern Greek...
...English Bible. A translation of the New Testament from the original Greek by a committee of British scholars and stylists whose aim was to make the Scripture intelligible to moderns who find much of the 17th century King James version unintelligible. Inevitably flatter and occasionally banal, it is nevertheless smooth and lucid, casts new light on many an obscure passage...