Tag: Retrieving

A Comedian Crowned with Brussels Sprouts: Retrieving Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries confessed, ever so wryly, that we crown our tragedians with laurel but our comedians with Brussels sprouts. We regard tragedy as the prime genre because it embodies the profoundest truths about proudly flawed heroes such as King Lear. Despite his ruinous hubris, the king dies nobly, even
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Retrieving Freedom: The Givenness of Freedom

Freedom has an origin. We have come to take freedom for granted as an evident fact, one of the obviously given realities of the world, or else we dispute that reality, just as we might dispute other ostensibly obvious things, such as the existence of nature or the existence of
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