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St. Thomas actions toward what is good
But the theologian considers as the final good that which is beyond the capacity of nature, namely, everlasting life, as has been said. Thus, he does not consider the good in human acts without qualification, because he puts the end not in the acts themselves, but in the disposition to that good which he makes the end. He says that only that act is completely good which has a proximate relation to the final good, that is, an act which merits eternal life. He says that every such act is an act of virtue, and every habit properly eliciting such an act he calls a virtue.
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“Pope Leo XIII, with the historic Encyclical Rerum novarum, addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution,” Pope Leo recalled. “Today, the Church offers to all her treasure of social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and the developments of artificial intelligence.” A name, then, not only rooted in tradition, but one that looks firmly ahead to the challenges of a rapidly changing world and the perennial call to protect those most vulnerable within it.
Leo XIII who wrote in Longinqua Oceani (January 6, 1895)
But, moreover (a fact which it gives pleasure to acknowledge), thanks are due to the equity of the laws which obtain in America and to the customs of the well-ordered Republic. For the Church amongst you, unopposed by the Constitution and government of your nation, fettered by no hostile legislation, protected against violence by the common laws and the impartiality of the tribunals, is free to live and act without hindrance. Yet, though all this is true, it would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion that in America is to be sought the type of the most desirable status of the Church, or that it would be universally lawful or expedient for State and Church to be, as in America, dissevered and divorced. The fact that Catholicity with you is in good condition, nay, is even enjoying a prosperous growth, is by all means to be attributed to the fecundity with which God has endowed His Church, in virtue of which unless men or circumstances interfere, she spontaneously expands and propagates herself; but she would bring forth more abundant fruits if, in addition to liberty, she enjoyed the favor of the laws and the patronage of the public authority.
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Samuel Johnson on Courage
"Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
Boswell: LifeSaturday, May 10, 2025
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Shakespeare's festive comedy; a study of dramatic form and its relation to social custom by Barber, C. L. (Cesar Lombardi)
https://archive.org/details/shakespearesfest00barb
Celebrating the Easter Season with Shakespeare’s “Festive Comedy”
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The Mythological Aspect of Plato’s Phaedo as Disclosing the Soul’s Ontological Significance
Socrates explicitly attributes to himself a dual nature in Phaedrus (cf., 230a)—one monstrous and the other gentle.
https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/3/89#fn010-philosophies-09-00089
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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Scientific American described Hugh Everett as "one of the most important scientists of the 20th century."
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John Coltrane -- death
Biographer Lewis Porter speculated that the cause of Coltrane's illness was hepatitis, although he also attributed the disease to Coltrane's heroin use at a previous period in his life.[79] Frederick J. Spencer wrote that Coltrane's death could be attributed to his needle use "or the bottle, or both."[80] He stated that "[t]he needles he used to inject the drugs may have had everything to do with" Coltrane's liver disease: "If any needle was contaminated with the appropriate hepatitis virus, it may have caused a chronic infection leading to cirrhosis or cancer."[80] He noted that despite Coltrane's "spiritual awakening" in 1957, "[b]y then, he may have had chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis... Unless he developed a primary focus elsewhere in later life and that spread to his liver, the seeds of John Coltrane's cancer were sown in his days of addiction."[81]
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Olympiodorus on Alcibiades
He especially enjoyed both the comic poet Aristophanes and Sophron, from
whom he had some help in the representation of the characters of his dialogues.
He reportedly enjoyed them so much that when he died, [the works of]
Aristophanes and Sophron were even found on his couch. And
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pbdhLfnOQLpm45hfCe3q9e2_Tshp2uYR/view
Athenaeus 505B Plato wrote the dialogues in a mimetic manner
“ αἴτιος ἐγένετο τοῖς περὶ Κλέαρχον τῆς ἀπωλείας τῆς ὑπὸ Τισσαφέρνου γενομένης, καὶ οἷός τις ἦν τὸν τρόπον, ὡς χαλεπός, ὡς ἀσελγής, [p. 266] διηγησάμενος φαίνεται. ὁ δὲ καλὸς Πλάτων μονονουχὶ εἰπών ' οὐκ ἔστ᾽ ἔτυμος λόγος οὗτος ' ἐγκώμια αὐτοῦ διεξέρχεται, ὁ τοὺς ἄλλους ἁπαξαπλῶς κακολογήσας, ἐν μὲν τῇ Πολιτείᾳ Ὅμηρον ἐκβάλλων καὶ τὴν μιμητικὴν ποίησιν, αὐτὸς δὲ τοὺς διαλόγους μιμητικῶς γράψας, ὧν τῆς ἰδέας οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸς εὑρετής ἐστιν. πρὸ γὰρ αὐτοῦ τοῦθ᾽ εὗρε τὸ εἶδος τῶν λόγων ὁ Τήιος Ἀλεξαμενός,4 ὡς “ Νικίας ὁ Νικαεὺς ἱστορεῖ καὶ Σωτίων. Ἀριστοτέλης δ᾽ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ποιητῶν οὕτως γράφει οὐκοῦν οὐδὲ ἐμμέτρους ὄντας τοὺς καλουμένους Σώφρονος μίμους μὴ φῶμεν εἶναι λόγους, ἢ μὴ μιμήσεις τοὺς Ἀλεξαμενοῦ τοῦ Τηίου τοὺς πρώτους γραφέντας τῶν Σωκρατικῶν λόγους ἄντικρυς φάσκων ὁ πολυμαθέστατος Ἀριστοτέλης πρὸ Πλάτωνος διαλόγους γεγραφέναι τὸν Ἀλεξαμενόν. διαβάλλει δὲ ὁ Πλάτων καὶ Θρασύμαχον τὸν [p. 268] Χαλκηδόνιον σοφιστὴν ὅμοιον εἶναι λέγων τῷ
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0405%3Acasaubonpage%3D505b