Grumpy thoughts on Book Clubs from 2006 in the SAU Blog
Well, perhaps not that grumpy. The link to the “long list” of One Book books is now broken, I’m afraid. I think I am more benign about this idea now – after…
Category: reflection
From “The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty” – Paul Evdokimov
The Creator, like a divine poet, in bringing the world into being out of nothingness, composed his Symphony in Six Days, the Hexameron. After each one of his creative acts,…
David Bromwich essay in the LRB on free speech
There’s a fascinating and – to use an overused phrase – thought-provoking piece in the LRB by David Bromwich about free speech. The early sections deal with the Rushdie affair…
Deer ears
My post on forest bathing on A Medical Education may have seemed a little sceptical in tone. That’s because it was in terms of the claims made for forest bathing…
Chopping firewood – from “The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees” by Robert Penn
Chopping firewood can be done in short bursts – in fact, little and often is the best way to approach a large pile – yet, as the logs mount in…
To Solve Everything, Click Here – Evgeny Morozov
I first came across Evgeny Morozov via the computer history mailing list SIGCIS. In essence, Morozov had written a New Yorker piece which drew heavily on the work of the…
Hesuchia – “we strive in order to be at rest”
My last few posts raised the risk that this blog would turn into a series of quotes from Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue” (a book I am well aware has many critics) – so now…
On Sophocles and conflicting virtues: from “After Virtue” by Alasdair MacIntyre
The ancestor of one of these sets of answers is Plato, for whom as we have seen the virtues are not merely compatible with each other, but the presence of…
Séamus Sweeney 