Author: George KentPublisher:
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Category : Baccalaureate addresses
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Characteristics and Claims of the Age in which We Live
Author: George KentPublisher:
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Category : Baccalaureate addresses
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Characteristics and Claims of the Age in which We Live: an Oration, Pronounced ... Before the New Hampshire Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
Author: George KENT (of Concord.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Observations Occasioned by the Remarks, on the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte, Published in the Christian Examiner, Vol. IV, No. V
Author: William Ellery CHANNINGPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The author defends the character of Napoleon against remarks "attributed by general report to the pen of the Reverend William E. Channing"--Page 3
Juvenescence
Author: Robert Pogue HarrisonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022617199X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
How old are we, those of us who belong to the postwar era? By many measures, both evolutionary and cultural, we are older than ever. But we are also getting startlingly youngeryounger in looks, attire, behavior, mentality, desires. We belong, Robert Harrison says, to an age of juvenescence. "Juvenescence "is about the ways in which the spirits of youth and age have coexisted and shaped each other, both in individuals and culture, from the time of antiquity to the present. It is also a book that asks what it means for the future when youth gains the upper hand to the unprecedented degree it has today. Our way of aging, Harrison argues, resembles thethe scientific concept of "neoteny"the retention of immature characteristics into adulthood. We mature, but with a still tenacious youthfulness, driving drives toward innovation rather than reflection, genius rather than wisdom. At its best, human maturity has its source in the youth it brings to fruition. And yet our protracted youth, Harrison suggests, is a luxury that can be supported only by our elders and the institutions they build. Although Harrison believes, echoing Stephen Jay Gould, that our genius as a species lies in our collective reluctance to grow up, he argues that we are today in a phase of radical juvenalization that allows no space for the kind of wisdom that builds upon the past."
Lives of the Presidents of the United States
Author: Robert W. LincolnPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Characteristics of the Times, Strong Incentives to Intellectual Effort
Author: T. G. KeenPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The Long Life
Author: Helen SmallPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191615579
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee. Helen Small argues that if we want to understand old age, we have to think more fundamentally about what it means to be a person, to have a life, to have (or lead) a good life, to be part of a just society. What did Plato mean when he suggested that old age was the best place from which to practice philosophy - or Thomas Mann when he defined old age as the best time to be a writer - and were they right? If we think, as Aristotle did, that a good life requires the active pursuit of virtue, how will our view of later life be affected? If we think that lives and persons are unified, much as stories are said to be unified, how will our thinking about old age differ from that of someone who thinks that lives and/or persons can be strongly discontinuous? In a just society, what constitutes a fair distribution of limited resources between the young and the old? How, if at all, should recent developments in the theory of evolutionary senescence alter our thinking about what it means to grow old? This is a groundbreaking book, deep as well as broad, and likely to alter the way in which we talk about one of the great social concerns of our time - the growing numbers of those living to be old, and the growing proportion of the old to the young.
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Zebulon Baird Vance
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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