The Great Conversation: Wisdom—Part IV
From the more obvious moral and intellectual meanings of wisdom, we pass now to something more esoteric.
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From the more obvious moral and intellectual meanings of wisdom, we pass now to something more esoteric.
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Victorian novelist Frank Smedley wrote that “All’s fair in love and war”; though we cannot be sure, Renaissance diplomat Christine de Pizan might have thrown her complete works at his head if she had heard that.
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Chekhov is celebrated for his eponymous gun, but his writing is more like a knife, sharpened to razor-like simplicity.
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Scholars the world over will, doubtless, agree that the greatest artistic embodiment of wisdom in the last hundred years (perhaps, in the last five hundred) was Bugs Bunny.
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The Great Conversation:Wisdom—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard Having discussed wisdom as a synonym for knowledge, we may shift to wisdom as a form of moral goodness. As discussed
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We might accuse St. Jerome of many faults—most of them connected with his severe disposition and hot temper—but he cannot be denied a singular presence and style.
Student Story: Mr. Silas Grout By Faith Walessa It couldn’t have been anything but a Tuesday—Mr. Silas Grout’s least favorite day of the week, and his thirty-eighth birthday.
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Lessons From Purgatory By Autumn Kennedy In its own capacity, Dante’s Purgatorio resembles Virgil, shepherding its readers up the sacred mountain in this life as he shepherded its
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Malory: Peril, Piety, and Perdition By Gabriel Blanchard No one codified the legend of King Arthur and its meaning for English culture as powerfully as Thomas Malory. The
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