http://phil159.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ eucatastrophe n. eucatastrophic [ < Gr. eu, "good" and catastrophe Coined by JRR Tolkien.] 1. (in a narrative) The event that shifts the balance in favor of the protagonist when all seems lost. 2. A happy ending. en Vox Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:58:39 -0800 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/he-was-a-prodigious-noticer.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/he-was-a-prodigious-noticer.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/he-was-a-prodigious-noticer.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:58:39 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddc5b410860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddc5b410860b-50si" alt="Mark Twain - A Film Directed by Ken Burns" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> “Great books are like wine. My books are like water,” Mark Twain once said. But Mark Twain said a lot of things worth remembering. I just finished the PBS Documentary on Twain’s life. I found myself wishing I had watched it backwards as it i... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/he-was-a-prodigious-noticer.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f18470b4860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> literature mark twain http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/all-right-then-ill-go-to-hell.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/all-right-then-ill-go-to-hell.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/all-right-then-ill-go-to-hell.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:39:10 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddc57f72860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddc57f72860b-50si" alt="Unborn in the USA" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Confession: I teach a college Ethics class. Thus far in the course, we have discussed ethical theories that can help us process difficult ethical decisions in our lives. But we have shied away from the debate of contentious issues. My own hope ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/all-right-then-ill-go-to-hell.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f1843c38860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> choice ethics abortion http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/our-world-isnt-all-there-is-rivka.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/our-world-isnt-all-there-is-rivka.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/our-world-isnt-all-there-is-rivka.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:49:19 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddedc06f860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddedc06f860d-50si" alt="Kadosh" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Kadosh is one of those movies I am tempted not to blog about. It is an Israeli movie in which secular Israeli actors play Orthodox Jewish characters. Amos Gitai has chosen to focus on the experience of women in two somewhat irregular but nev... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/our-world-isnt-all-there-is-rivka.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f183ded2860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> religion marriage love law judaism legalism http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/rutland-vermonts-screwball-olympics-1858.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/rutland-vermonts-screwball-olympics-1858.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/rutland-vermonts-screwball-olympics-1858.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:05:25 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f1836b37860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f1836b37860f-50si" alt="RutlandFreeConvention" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> "A Convention of Moral Lunatics": The Rutland, Vermont, Free Convention of 1858. READ HERE. Just one more reason why I love my State. It is only 1858 and it is already attracting oddballs like bees to honey. And if you read the article, you see ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/rutland-vermonts-screwball-olympics-1858.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f01240b8000e8860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> vermont vermont history http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/existentialism-comes-to-valhalla.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/existentialism-comes-to-valhalla.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/existentialism-comes-to-valhalla.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:38:13 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd95536860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd95536860c-50si" alt="The Bothersome Man" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain knowledge must precede every action. The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do: the thing is to ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/existentialism-comes-to-valhalla.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddc4645a860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> existentialism suicide heaven http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/when-did-the-maw-of-avarice-gape-wider.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/when-did-the-maw-of-avarice-gape-wider.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/when-did-the-maw-of-avarice-gape-wider.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:36:37 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd8f63b860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd8f63b860c-50si" alt="Frontline: Breaking the Bank" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I just watched FRONTLINE'S Breaking the Bank. I am not sure what to say that has not already been said really. Really. It is like watching Rome burn. Why talk about it? I think I will just share some lines from Juvenal's Satires, descriptions of ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/when-did-the-maw-of-avarice-gape-wider.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f182c200860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> greed economy rome wealth wall street satires juvenal http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/the-trap.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/the-trap.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/the-trap.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:27:31 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f01240b7eff08860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f01240b7eff08860e-50si" alt="The Trap" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> A few days ago, I dropped in at a blood drive and donated some blood. The man who took it was Serbian. He told me a small part of his story but not all. And I wondered what kind of story lies behind the decision to take one's family and move to an... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/the-trap.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f01240b7effce860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> ethics insurance healthcare serbia http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/the-only-place-where-the-lilies-are-considered-at-all.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/the-only-place-where-the-lilies-are-considered-at-all.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/the-only-place-where-the-lilies-are-considered-at-all.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:49:28 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/book/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f18254a4860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123f18254a4860f-50si" alt="A Room for Learning: The Making of a School in Vermont" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> “You have listened long enough. Demonstrate your note.” Seamus Heaney, Station Island My hat is off to Tal Birdsey and the students who made him worth listening to. As a student and teacher of Vermont History and as a person who has tried to v... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/the-only-place-where-the-lilies-are-considered-at-all.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddd889cf860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> teaching school education http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/an-argument-for-fear-funding.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/an-argument-for-fear-funding.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/an-argument-for-fear-funding.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:13:42 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/book/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddebb3b8860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddebb3b8860d-50si" alt="7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I am so glad that I do not have Andrew Krepinevich’s job. Trained at West Point and 21 years in the military, he spends his life imagining future military conflicts and advocating that we spend lots of money preparing to fight them. If he is no... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/an-argument-for-fear-funding.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddebb3f8860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> military war islam debt conflict http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/my-blogs-worst-movie-to-date.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(vtpanther) http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/my-blogs-worst-movie-to-date.html?_c=feed-rss http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/my-blogs-worst-movie-to-date.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:22:38 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/video/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddc1a8fa860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4144d4df23c7f0123ddc1a8fa860b-50si" alt="Synecdoche New York" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I cannot believe I used an hour of my BIRTHDAY to watch the rest of this movie. But I did. It is funny how the Rubiks Cubeedness of it challenges me even if its essential morbidity depressed me. Maybe on some subconscious level I have a greater... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://phil159.vox.com/library/post/my-blogs-worst-movie-to-date.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4144d4df23c7f01240b7cf898860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> existentialism post-modernism despair