Guildhall
Jun 26, 2013 0:24:25 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2013 0:24:25 GMT -5
Good morning to you all! At a lavish dinner in London's Guildhall in 1993, the 2,500th anniversary of the birth of democracy was celebrated. Not everyone has been impressed. Plato thought that democracy meant the rule of the incompetent. When Socrates asked the question ‘How should man live?’, Plato and Aristotle answered that man should live a life of virtue. Plato claimed there were four great virtues: prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude. The Christian Church added three more: faith, hope and love.
Bible Gateway - 1 Corinthians 13:11-13 (King James Version)
But where does the motivation for virtue come from, Sydney Grew? Do we need rules to tell us how to behave or can we rely on our feelings of compassion and empathy towards other human beings? In 'Othello', Shakespeare’s Iago reckons that virtue is a fig! “ ‘tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.” What does exist, however, is an almost universal abhorrence of tyranny, Neil McGowan. Cheers, all (Wednesday morning breakfast coffee)!
The Anthologist
" ... When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."
Bible Gateway - 1 Corinthians 13:11-13 (King James Version)
But where does the motivation for virtue come from, Sydney Grew? Do we need rules to tell us how to behave or can we rely on our feelings of compassion and empathy towards other human beings? In 'Othello', Shakespeare’s Iago reckons that virtue is a fig! “ ‘tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.” What does exist, however, is an almost universal abhorrence of tyranny, Neil McGowan. Cheers, all (Wednesday morning breakfast coffee)!
The Anthologist