Casual Soapbox: VA-Sen: Webb Gains But Allen Above 50%
Array of History, Arts and Libraries).The May 6th events and the authors tour that has followed it, including visits by notable authors to 51 libraries statewide, were made possible through the Library of Michigan Foundation by the Michigan Humanities Council and other generous sponsors including Cooley Law School, ProQuest, LaSalle Bank, Michigan Center for the Book, Michigan Week, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Schulers Books &
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Their posts are often about other blog posts, and they encourage comments, which are then commented on, and may link to other blogs. Carnivals are essentially self-selected groups of blog posts, submitted by the authors to a site that acts as a host for a particular topic. According to a page there, one of the first blog carnivals was called, appropriately enough, Carnival of the Vanities.
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Aristotle mentions, as an expression of magnanimity, that one give in return more than what was originally given to you, since in that way the other person is blessed, as it were, by dealing with you, and furthermore he now becomes indebted to you–which presumably will encourage him to initiate another round of reciprocal giving (NE IV.3 1124b10-12).Cicero in De Officiis recommends something similar, although he does so under his treatment of the virtue of liberalitas, a species (he considers) of iusitia, not under magnitudo animi:Quodsi ea, quae utenda acceperis, maiore mensura, si modo possis, iubet reddere Hesiodus, quidnam beneficio provocati facere debemus? an imitari agros fertiles, qui multo plus efferunt quam acceperunt? Etenim si in eos, quos speramus nobis profuturos, non dubitamus officia conferre, quales in eos esse debemus, qui iam profuerunt? (I 48)For if, as Hesiod commands [Works and Days 349-51], you should return in greater measure, provided that you can, anything that you have needed to borrow, what should we do when challenged by an unsought favor? Should we not take as our model the fertile fields, which bring forth much more than they have received? We do not hesitate to perform dutiful services for those whom we hope will assist us in the future; what, then, ought we to be like towards those who have already assisted us? (Adkins)Since I agree with Aristotle that the point of studying ethics is not simply to know what virtue is but also to become good (and that these may come apart), during the Mayweek Seminar I decided at one point to attempt to put this advice into practice.At lunch with some graduate students I found myself short for paying my share of the tab. One student kindly lent me £2. The next day, I purposefully brought to the seminar £3 in change, and, when this student was leaving the room at the end of the session, I placed that sum in his hand. He had a chance to look at the money and count it before he went out the door, and then he turned to me and said, It was onlylink
A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows the Virginia Senate race narrowing, but Allen still leads from what is traditionally considered safe territory, above 50% (Apr number in parentheses):George Allen (R) 51% (50%)Jim Webb (D) 41% (30%)
Array of History, Arts and Libraries).The May 6th events and the authors tour that has followed it, including visits by notable authors to 51 libraries statewide, were made possible through the Library of Michigan Foundation by the Michigan Humanities Council and other generous sponsors including Cooley Law School, ProQuest, LaSalle Bank, Michigan Center for the Book, Michigan Week, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Schulers Books &
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Their posts are often about other blog posts, and they encourage comments, which are then commented on, and may link to other blogs. Carnivals are essentially self-selected groups of blog posts, submitted by the authors to a site that acts as a host for a particular topic. According to a page there, one of the first blog carnivals was called, appropriately enough, Carnival of the Vanities.
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Aristotle mentions, as an expression of magnanimity, that one give in return more than what was originally given to you, since in that way the other person is blessed, as it were, by dealing with you, and furthermore he now becomes indebted to you–which presumably will encourage him to initiate another round of reciprocal giving (NE IV.3 1124b10-12).Cicero in De Officiis recommends something similar, although he does so under his treatment of the virtue of liberalitas, a species (he considers) of iusitia, not under magnitudo animi:Quodsi ea, quae utenda acceperis, maiore mensura, si modo possis, iubet reddere Hesiodus, quidnam beneficio provocati facere debemus? an imitari agros fertiles, qui multo plus efferunt quam acceperunt? Etenim si in eos, quos speramus nobis profuturos, non dubitamus officia conferre, quales in eos esse debemus, qui iam profuerunt? (I 48)For if, as Hesiod commands [Works and Days 349-51], you should return in greater measure, provided that you can, anything that you have needed to borrow, what should we do when challenged by an unsought favor? Should we not take as our model the fertile fields, which bring forth much more than they have received? We do not hesitate to perform dutiful services for those whom we hope will assist us in the future; what, then, ought we to be like towards those who have already assisted us? (Adkins)Since I agree with Aristotle that the point of studying ethics is not simply to know what virtue is but also to become good (and that these may come apart), during the Mayweek Seminar I decided at one point to attempt to put this advice into practice.At lunch with some graduate students I found myself short for paying my share of the tab. One student kindly lent me £2. The next day, I purposefully brought to the seminar £3 in change, and, when this student was leaving the room at the end of the session, I placed that sum in his hand. He had a chance to look at the money and count it before he went out the door, and then he turned to me and said, It was onlylink
A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows the Virginia Senate race narrowing, but Allen still leads from what is traditionally considered safe territory, above 50% (Apr number in parentheses):George Allen (R) 51% (50%)Jim Webb (D) 41% (30%)