 |
Transience/Impermanence
- Cornelis Anthonisz, 1537 |
In this image does death simply advise, or is there a dialogue taking place? What does the man point to?
Click HERE to read about Cornelis Anthonisz.
I just received the following from Jean-Paul L. Garnier of Space Cowboy Books:
The classic science fiction magazine Worlds of IF will live again starting February 2024. The magazine will be relaunched with Justin Sloane of Starship Sloane as editor-in-chief and publisher, Jean-Paul L. Garnier of Space Cowboy Books filling the role of deputy-editor-in-chief, and Dr. Daniel Pomarède as science editor. The inaugural issue will be available both in print and free download PDF, with works from multiple generations of SFF authors, artists, and poets. Leading up to the release, the website will feature teasers including interviews with notable SFF authors and fans, audio adaptations of classic tales from the original IF, and articles about SFF and beyond. In the tradition of IF, the editors plan on experimenting with new forms and styles of SF, showcasing new authors, interacting with fandom, and bringing fun and weird science fiction to readers.
Visit Starship Sloane Publishing's homesite for a free webzine reissue of the April 1955 Worlds of IF, featuring novelettes by James E. Gunn and Fox B. Holden, with a short story by Philip K. Dick. Pleased click HERE.
Learn more and find bonus content, click HERE.
Whatever choice or possession of natural goods - health and strength, wealth, friends and the like - will most conduce to the contemplation of God is best: this is the finest criterion. But any standard of living which either through excess or defect hinders the service and contemplation of God is bad.
--The Eudemian Ethics
Discussion of this passage, HERE.
Even more Aristotelian advice, HERE.
 |
| Athena advises Odysseus |
Query: Can Athena teach us about God?
Answer: Does Homer instruct Milton?
Terms
Essay Thesis or Paragraph Topic Sentence: identify the term in a general statement.
Paragraph
Topics or Supporting Sentences: specific statements in which you describe,
explain, discuss and comment on the term. Develop general points with
discussion, illustrations and examples. Suggested descriptive
points:
Definition
Origin
and history of the term/the use of the term
Explain
the term
Examples and illustrations of problems and questions surrounding or falling
under the heading of the term
What
other people have said about the term
What
you think about the term, your views
Significance?
Philosophers,
Theologians and Figures of Philosophical Interest
Essay
Thesis or Paragraph Topic Sentence: identify the figure in a general statement.
What is the figure’s significance or place in the history of ideas?
Paragraph Topics or Supporting Sentences: specific statements in which you describe,
explain, discuss and comment on the figure. Develop general points with
discussion, illustrations and examples. Suggested descriptive
points:
Significance
(possibly continued from your thesis/topic sentence, or make this(these) remark(s) at
the end of your essay/paragraph)
Biography
Publications
and work
Figure
influenced by_______________
Figure
influenced_______________
(Remember,
influences—in either direction—can include other figures, history, politics,
the history of philosophy, biographical matters, and the world of schools and
school teachers.)
Main
ideas (What are the figures most important ideas? Also, possibly use
the “Moral Philosophy in Context” tool: 1) Metaphysical beliefs, special claims
for reason or logic, theory of human nature. 2) Moral Philosophy. 3) Political
Philosophy.)
What other
people have said about the figure (you might want to return to
significance)
What
you think about the figure, your views (again, you might want to
return to significance)
Possible final statement: Why is the figure significant?
 |
| Gustav König “Luther begins the translation of the Bible at the Wartburg” 1847 |
Please click HERE for the National Fantasy Fan Federation announcement.
This year, Michael Butterworth published a collection of his poetry. Click the cover image for the amazon description:
New poetry from Michael Butterworth appears in Emanations Zen. Description here:
On behalf of International Authors I am happy to announce the publication of Emanations Zen.
Emanations Zen is the tenth volume of International Authors’ anthology project, which encourages raconteurs, poets, visionaries and memorists to engage with the possibilities for unrestricted inquiry and free expression. Here readers will find a book that is challenging, far-ranging and far-seeing, a book that advances the ways informed literature can be used to view and understand the world. The forty-one contributors represent Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, India, Oman, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France, Norway, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Please click the cover image to view the Amazon description.
Among the many curious optical effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey is the illusion of a human face in the Ares 1B moon shuttle.
