Time and Permanence in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
Pedro Blas González In my beginning is my end…. … to be restored, our sickness must grow worse. —T. S. Eliot, Four QuartetsT. S. Eliot begins Burnt Norton with a reflection of time as cyclical. Because time-past and present are enveloped by time-future, Eliot...The Future of the West in the Thought of Muggeridge and Ortega y Gasset
Pedro Blas González Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) and José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) alert us to the cultural, moral, and social-political implications that the disregard for objective values has for the future of the West. Muggeridge’s main concern is what he...Happiness or Joy?
Pedro Blas González If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the Saints and God. —Yes; but is it not to be happy to have a faculty of being amused by diversion? —No; for that comes from elsewhere and from without, and thus is...Plato’s Idea of the Teacher
Pedro Blas González Part Two of Two. Click here for Part One.Plato’s idea of a teacher does not necessarily mean a schoolteacher. Effective teachers are those who are up to the aforementioned task of facilitation—but the burden falls on the student. There must exist a...
There are metaphorical hills on which I would be willing to die. The Oxford comma is one of them.
So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy, then talk about them. Bring back the salon!