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...students sound old-fashioned, if not completely absurd. Yet, at one point, such concerns formed the center of a truly moral education. Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics listed “greatness of soul,” or “magnanimity,” among the principal moral virtues??as the “crown” of the virtues, in fact, without which the other moral virtues cannot properly exist. For one who exemplifies all the moral virtues??an ideal toward which men of a previous age continuously would strive—proudly disdains...
...science had won for itself the liberty to investigate material phenomena without regard for the political or moral consequences of their findings. The most certain and dependable knowledge that men can acquire comes only from a rigorous and mathematical inquiry into nature. The tenets of theology or the moral virtues??the most important knowledge for the soul—may have had greater priority in previous societies. Yet the innovation of our age has been to discredit such matters as necessarily spurious and speculative and thus not the subject of real intellectual activity. What matters to moderns...
...while the ISG’s report has its virtues??namely, highlighting the failures of the present strategy—it is nonetheless undermined by several critical flaws. The report deserves consideration, but ultimately Bush should not adopt its call for a set date for leaving Iraq. A “new way forward” must indeed be found in Iraq, but the ISG report doesn’t fit the bill...
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—The sprawling complex just minutes away from my Lefferts Manor home might be the world’s most famous housing project. This is hardly a result of its physical virtues??the orange brick façade and the green balcony ledges stand out only as eyesores, striking examples of an architectural period my friend’s mother once dubbed “Early Ugly.” But a sign on the Bedford Avenue side reveals the site’s significance to the uninformed: Ebbets Field. There used...
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