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Waiting To Watch The Water Clear: On Robert Frost’s "The Pasture"

The Pasture Robert Frost I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young, It totters when …

June 4, 2007 – 2:38 am | By ashok | Posted in frost, poetry | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Are There People Whose Talents Concern Only the Common Good? If So, Could Their Private Lives Still Be A Mess?

All quotes below are from Aquinas: Political Writings, part of the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, ed. and translated by R.W. Dyson. In IaIIae 92:1 of the Summa Theologiae, Thomas considers “whether it is an effect of law to make men good.” It might not be such an effect, says objection 3 …

April 5, 2007 – 10:08 am | By ashok | Posted in philosophy, politics | Tagged | Comments (0)

Love and Perfection: "Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right" (Bob Dylan)

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right Bob Dylan (version below is covered by Elliott Smith – I’ve changed the lyrics to reflect Smith’s version) Well, it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don’t know by now An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe It won’t matter, …

April 1, 2007 – 11:50 pm | By ashok | Posted in love, music | Tagged , | Comments (1)

The Efficacy of Law Via Reason

All quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law, can be found here. We have reflected before how law’s primary concern might be with the passions – that a law lasts depends on the sentiments people have toward it and what it represents; what a law does seems to involve the restraint of sentiment. Now …

March 23, 2007 – 11:57 am | By ashok | Posted in philosophy, politics | Tagged | Comments (0)