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Showing posts with label Humanities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humanities. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Joseph Ransdell on Charles Sanders Peirce

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"When the truth about Peirce's life and accomplishments becomes generally known, it will be perceived that he was not only the mo...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

The Inherent Inseparability of Doctrine & Skills

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A quick screen shot of my brief bit in Linda Edwards' fantastic new book The Doctrine Skills Divide: Legal Education's Self-Inflic...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Blake Within Blake Within Blake Without End

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As I have written before , the great William Blake magnificently employed signs beyond mere words in his poetry.  His powerful illustrati...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Beyond Words Alone: Poets as Artists of the Intentional

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  In his wonderful The New Book of Forms , Lewis Turco tells us that poets “ focus on mode , on language itself.”   Focusing ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Abelard: The Peril & the Price of Careless Thought (Addition to the Apology Box)

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                         Abelard’s Ballade Thought is the cruelest place where charts mark no Fixed latitude or constancy of shore...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Anselm's Short Ballade (An Addition to "The Apology Box")

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              Anselm’s Short Ballade I’m unsurprised that mind persists although The body drops extinguished.   Nothing may Be per...

Five Warriors: Hannibal, Charlemagne, Roland, William the Conqueror, & Henry V (Additions to "The Apology Box)

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                    Short Ballade of Henry V                                           (esse quam videri) Although my youth wa...

Three Religious Warriors: Richard I, Saladin, & Charles Martel (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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              Richard I’s Sonnet Christ is my only standard. As he drove The money changers from the temple who Profaned it, I...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Sonnets of Seven Greek Philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Zeno of Citium, Diogenes of Sinope, Heraclitus, & Protagoras (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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                   Plato’s Sonnet             (A liberated caveman) When I was tethered up inside the cave Where I could see ...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Confucius and Lao Tzu (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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            Confucius’s Sonnet Mere force brings no true order since forced change Warps from without and thus can never fit A...

Boethius, St. Ambrose, and Marcion the Docetist (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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                Boethius's Sonnet Was Theodoric’s prison in the end That proved the real academy.   Was there They taught first...

Cyrus and Esther (Additions to the Apology Box)

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     Cyrus The Great’s Proof It’s wrong to disown any family. We must be fair in hospitality To every member. We may not despi...