7/8/2023 0 Comments Aristotle nichomachean![]() It is not merely an investigation about what good consists of, but hopes to be of practical help in achieving the good. ![]() Ethics, Aristotle says, is practical rather than theoretical, in the Aristotelian senses of these terms. ![]() In Aristotle's Metaphysics, he describes how Socrates, the friend and teacher of Plato, turned philosophy to human questions, whereas pre-Socratic philosophy had only been theoretical. The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, about how men should best live. The work plays a pre-eminent role in explaining Aristotelian ethics. : I.2 It consists of ten books or scrolls, and is closely related to Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics. ![]() The Nicomachean Ethics ( / ˌ n aɪ k ɒ m ə ˈ k i ə n/ / ˌ n ɪ k ə m ə ˈ k i ə n/ Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. First page of a 1566 edition of the Nicomachean Ethics in Greek and Latin ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke![]() ![]() He is, however, portrayed with a soft voice and a conversational manner. "HAL is never visualized as a single entity. HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech recognition, facial recognition, and natural language processing, but also lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, reasoning, and chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on an interplanetary voyage. HAL is usually represented only as his television camera "eyes" that can be seen throughout the Discovery spaceship. "HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery. Perhaps the star of the film was the HAL 9000 computer. ![]() Clarke, captured imaginations with the idea of a computer that could see, speak, hear, and “think.” In 1968 the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, written by American film director Stanley Kubrick in collaboration with science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The jungle book original story![]() ![]() But they are afraid of him too, because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad, and then he forgets that he was ever afraid of anyone, and runs through the forest biting everything in his way. ![]() It was the jackal-Tabaqui, the Dish-licker-and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.’ ![]() ‘It is time to hunt again.’ He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: ‘Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. ![]() The original tale has lots more to tell than the popular disney version and makes a great story for bedtime – children will want to go to bed so they can find out what happens next! A public domain book formatted for easy use by planet pdf.īy: Rudyard Kipling Excerpt from The Jungle Book The Jungle Book a classic tale of Mowgli – a boy who is abandoned in the jungle and bought up by wolves, a bear, and a panther. ![]() ![]() Washington himself isn’t particularly experienced either he comes from a wealthy family in Virginia where he runs his own plantation there. They’re also demoralized because they feel like their cause is just but they don’t have any experience fighting in battle. His troops are inexperienced and disorganized. George Washington, who’s leading them, knows that he’s facing a potential crisis. ![]() However, they supported the king’s plan in the end and ensured that the American Revolution would last for many years.Īround the same time, the American army is assembled outside of Boston. Some Members of Parliament were skeptical about sending those troops because they thought it would be a long war. The Americans fired on British soldiers at Lexington and Concord, but King George III wanted to send more troops to America. In October of 1775, the Revolutionary War was just beginning. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An excellent audiobook version is narrated by British actor Michael York. The book was adapted for a movie in 1988 and again for the blockbuster 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. ![]() The main characters are clear role models who valiantly help save Narnia from the Witch even the one who initially falls under her sway learns his lesson, showing the power of repentance and forgiveness. Performed at The Threesixty Theater in Kensington Gardens, London. Directed by Rubert Goold and Michael Fentiman. ![]() Starring Sally Dexter, Carly Bawden, Rebecca Benson, Philip Labey, and Jonny Weldon. Creepy, evil creatures are also described their leader is the White Witch, who is cruel and shows no mercy. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Expect several violent scenes, including a large battle (axes, clubs, and more are used, and characters are injured and die) and - spoiler alert! - the tense, scary, sad death of a major character. Lewis, a devout Christian, weaves lots of Christian allegory into the book (and the series as a whole), but the story can be enjoyed on many levels, by all kinds of readers. 9 hours ago &0183 &32 Knoxville Children’s Theatre, in partnership with the Clayton Foundation, will present a live production of The Lion, The Witch, & the Wardrobe. Lewis' classic Chronicles of Narnia series, which children have loved for generations. Parents need to know that the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book published in C.S. Edmund's rescuers give him some wine (medicinally).ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Beaver has beer with his dinner and smokes a pipe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Göteborg's widow, Carla, who initially believed Lindenbrook was trying to capitalize on her deceased husband's work, learns the truth. ![]() Lindenbrook finds potassium cyanide crystals in Göteborg's goatee and concludes that he was murdered. They later find Göteborg dead in his hotel room. ![]() They are freed by local Hans Bjelke and his pet duck Gertrud. There, Göteborg and his assistant kidnap and imprison them in a cellar. Lindenbrook and McEwan chase him to Iceland. Professor Göteborg, upon receiving correspondence from Lindenbrook regarding the message, attempts to reach the Earth's center first. ![]() After translating the message, Lindenbrook immediately sets off with Alec to follow in the Icelandic pioneer's footsteps. Lindenbrook and Alec discover that it was left by a scientist named Arne Saknussemm, who, almost 300 years earlier, had found a passage to the center of the Earth by descending into the volcano Snæfellsjökull, in western Iceland. Finding the rock unusually heavy, Lindenbrook discovers a plumb bob inside bearing a cryptic inscription. In 1880 Edinburgh, Professor Sir Oliver Lindenbrook, a geologist at the University of Edinburgh, is given a piece of volcanic rock by his admiring student, Alec McEwan, who is in love with Lindenbrook's niece Jenny. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Dark horse book todd rose![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, he found one common thread: Dark horses are fulfilled. What he also discovered interviewing a range of people for Dark Horse is that there isn’t one defining character trait all dark horses share, like a desire to be a rebel. What Rose found is that these dark horses, the winners no one saw coming, became successful by doing exactly what Rose’s dad suggested - they found their motivation and then did something with it on their own terms. A bar owner who pivoted midcareer and became a successful tailor. A fast-food worker who taught herself about galaxies and stars and became a noted astronomer. ![]() This advice came into play again, more recently, when Rose set out to write a book that looks at people who achieved success despite not following the “standard formula” for doing well. When Lecturer Todd Rose, Ed.M.’01, Ed.D.’07, cofounder of Populace and the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality, was struggling in school as a teen, his father gave him advice that had a big impact on him then: Find out what motivates you and stay close to that. ![]() ![]() Pinker is a paragon of exactly the kind of intellectual honesty and courage we need David Brooks, The New York Times ![]() Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations IndependentĪ salutary reminder of the material progress modern science and commerce have delivered The New York Times This is the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century. But the way to deal with them is not to sink into despair or try to lurch back to a mythical idyllic past it's to treat them as problems we can solve, as we have solved other problems in the past. ![]() The challenges we face today are formidable. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even realizing it. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer and more prosperous - not just in the West, but worldwide. ![]() If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. ![]() Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The understatement of the year![]() ![]() It's not the comments, snide remarks and outright slurs Rikker has to face makes it look all that appealing to be openly gay on a college hockey team either, so Graham descends into a shame spiral of denial and repressed lust and tries to bury his true feelings with copious amounts of alcohol. He's terrified that Rikker will admit that they not only knew each other in high school, but used to hook up. Flooded with fear and guilt, Graham knows that Rikker has the power to destroy him with a word. Then he was shipped off to live with his grandmother and Graham did his best to forget him and the feelings he had, retreating so far into the closet you'd think he'd end up in Narnia.įive years later, Graham gets a nasty shock when Rikker walks into the locker room after a hockey game, having transferred colleges because he was outed at his previous school and deemed undesirable on the team. ![]() Graham managed to run away, Rikker didn't, and ended up in hospital. Taking every chance they got to be together in secret, their developing relationship came to a violent end when they were caught by a gang of homophobic bullies. Until the summer when it was quite clear that their friendship was turning into something else and they couldn't keep their hands off each other anymore. ![]() Michael Graham and John Rikker were best friends growing up, spending all their time together, playing hockey either on the ice or on a gaming console in Graham's den. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Nostromo conrad![]() First: Costaguana has been conquered by Europeans for some time. ![]() ![]() This first chunk of text gives us a lot of really important information. The clumsy deep-sea galleons of the conquerors that, needing a brisk gale to move at all, would lie becalmed, where your modern ship built on clipper lines forges ahead by the mere flapping of her sails, had been barred out of Sulaco by the prevailing calms of its vast gulf. In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco-the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity-had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo. In addition to giving us a ghost story that serves as a metaphor for some of the characters' behavior (see " Symbols"), this chapter provides a crystal clear picture of the topography of Sulaco's surroundings. Understanding the geography of Sulaco and the surrounding areas is pretty important, which is probably why Conrad starts the book with an entire chapter devoted to setting-no characters, no action. ![]() Most of the action takes place in Sulaco, a port town (which is also totally made up). Costaguana is a fictional South American country loosely based on Colombia. ![]() |