Spiral Historiography

Humanism: Understanding Virtues and Vices Together

Humanism: Understanding Virtues and Vices Together

Virtues and vices are often seen as opposing forces in moral philosophy. In Aristotle's view, virtues are character traits that represent a balance or "mean" between two opposing vices. For example, courage is a virtue that exists between the vices of recklessness and...

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The Madness that is Institutional Thinking

The Madness that is Institutional Thinking

  Lynn Arnold was a long-serving minister and premier of South Australia from 1992-93. After Labor’s defeat in 1993, he moved to Spain to research for a PhD in linguistics, worked for World Vision, then ran Anglicare. Since Anglicare was essentially a lobbying...

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Interbelief and the Level Playing Field

Interbelief and the Level Playing Field

SEA OF FAITH IN AUSTRALIA (SoFiA) - Melbourne.   Interbelief and the Level Playing Field Australian Book. LPF. Stupidity of the Market Economy in Higher Education - Dr Neville Buch Attitudes. Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism   Some of us are...

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Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man

Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man

    Inspired by Sebastian Smee’s article in The Washington Post.     Sebastian Smee, The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread, The Washington Post, 18 April 2025 at 10:00 a.m. EDT.     Smee writes, “Dylan is the Picasso...

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Phlebas the Phoenician

Phlebas the Phoenician

  Phlebas the Phoenician, for modernity, is introduced by T.S. Elliot as a character from his poem The Waste Land, in Part IV. ‘Death by Water’. It is the shortest section of the poem, describing the aftermath of the drowning of Phoenician sailor Phlebas, an...

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