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Among the new acquisitions currently on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is a large square canvas called Abstract Painting that seems at first glance to be entirely black. Closer inspection shows that it is subtly divided into seven lesser areas. In a helpful gallery note at...
"There is a distance between me and me," Moore said; the me which is a thing among others in the world and the me which is an impartial observer. "In so far as I am transcendent and withdrawn, my existential attitude belongs to the tradition of idealism; but at the...
A higher dimension is the result of a lower one moved perpendicular to itself. Writes Pollard: "Heaven, instead of being above us in ordinary space, is perpendicular to ordinary space, and the eternal is perpendicular to the temporal dimension. The transcendent and the supernatural, instead of being pushed farther and...
I was highly distressed at the lack of moral imagination reflected in the views ot the spiritual leaders quoted. They contain not a single transcendent idea which could inspire any noble possibilities in man
The Moral Order. It has been the historic hope of the church down through the ages to act as peacemaker between man and man, nation and nation. Today, the Pope noted, individuals are growing increasingly convinced of the need for mutual understanding and cooperation, but their leaders seem unable to...