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Apr 26, 1990 · ‘Is Nothing Sacred?’ is the text of the Herbert Read Memorial Lecture delivered by Harold Pinter at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London on 6 February 1990. It was also published by Granta as a pamphlet.
Feb 15, 2009 · Yesterday I quoted Christopher Hitchens as saying that nothing is sacred. I now ask what it means to say that nothing is sacred. I think it means something like the following. Nothing, nothing at all, is holy, venerable, worthy of worship; nothing is an appropriate object of reverence.
Jan 1, 2002 · This book's author is best known for developing a non-realistic interpretation of Christian doctrine and an ever-more radically antirealist position in philosophy.
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Soliloquy 4 "To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus:.....And champion me to th'utterance! Macbeth has changed from the conflicted man of Act I and II to a shrewd criminal by this act. He has planned Banquo's murder and this soliloquy underlines the reason why Macbeth fears him.
3 days ago · The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.
Under all normal circumstances it is understood to be the duty of English academics to shelter the minds of the young from noxious Continental ideas; a duty which, until recently, all English philosophers and theologians performed unhesitatingly and with great success.
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Is Nothing Sacred? is a stimulating and wide-ranging debate about some of the major moral dilemmas facing us today, such as the value of human life, art, the environment, and personal freedom.
