“Reason is at its best related to generosity, to being able to acknowledge the truth or justice of another’s claim even when it cuts against the grain of one’s own interests and desires. To be reasonable in this sense involves not some desiccated calculation but courage, realism, justice, humility, and largess of spirit; there is certainly nothing clinically disinterested in this.”
Terry Eagleton, Illusions of Postmodernism, Blackwell, 1996, 123.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Quote for the Day
Mongol General: "What is best in life?"
Conan the Barbarian (aka the current Republican governor of California): "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
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