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Dr. Robert T. Morris: Fifty Years a Surgeon
A clear window into many important and interesting areas of life in general - as well as medicine - in the mid-19th to early 20th century. Warts and all. Good read. (***)
Christopher Landon: Ice Cold in Alex
Interesting and well developed characters, in genuinely tension inducing situations - even when the matter of "who did it" is not really a mystery. Vivid enough for the place and period - WW2 North Africa to early 1950s Britain - to come to life inside your mind. (***)
Karl Von Clausewitz: On War
I read this first many years ago. The author then impressed me as being more lucid and broadly learned than many contemporary writers on this and similar areas. He still does. (****)
Loren Lomasky: Person's, Rights, and the Moral Community
Well written, and clear. Many interesting ideas and explications of problems, but his theory itself - on a derivation of rights, seems possessed of unnecessary elements. Worth reading. (***)
J. B.Schneewind: Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral PhilosophyVictorian Moral Philosophy
Details life and analyses work of one of the great figures in 19th century philosophy. Well written, gives good insight into the context of attitudes, assumptions, and circumstances affecting much of the intellectual spirit and life of Britain during those times. (***)
J.G.Ballard: The Drowned World
Another (long-time) re-read. Ballard tends to play one note - but it's a good one - and he plays it VERY well. Some uncontrolled/unforeseen calamity engulfs the world. Protagonist(s) confront general realization of the coldly impersonal nature of the world and how human responses are to a large extent a product of the interaction of those forces with his/there-own biological pre-dispositions - engraved in the structure of each and every one of their cells. And, that the true and only expression of one's authentic self and humanity, lies in how and whether one can/does inwardly accept the truth of these constraints, and expresses that realization, in those (few) opportunities available for actual personal choice. Intentionally or not his work gives powerful and poetic expression to the Existentialist perspective. The world of this novel happens to be slowly drowning in the over-heated flood-tides that result from a run-away solar anomaly. But, it could be just about any such occurrence - e.g. A "Wind From Nowhere," or the Japanese invasion of Shanghai (both of which served as the backgrounds of others among his novels). The story-line, character-types, dilemmas, decisions, and general moods are much the same in each story, but the pacing, poetry, intensity, and aggravating authenticity of the characterizations in each instance are gripping enough to make every reading worthwhile. (***)

12 January 2007

Fractured

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Reflections on a House Divided

Fractured

In the wake of this last election there was never really any "bipartisanship" concerning the war in Iraq - that died well before seeing the light of day. The actual philosophy of the Democrats on the matter was implicit in Sen Durban's reply to the Presidents speech Wednesday night - in the line where he claimed of our Iraqi allies - who have lost tens of thousands of soldiers, police officers and civilians in this struggle so far, that "...they must know that every time they call 911 we are not going to send 20,000 more American soldiers" (1) - a statement that manages to combine in one brief segment all of the myopic, unthinking, nastiness of many on the "old - isolationist - right" with the essence of the cringing, hissing, petulance common amongst all-to-many on the anti-war left.
Have a nice day. Indeed.

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Great piece as always David..the word bi-partisan has become nothing short of a cruel joke!

Posted by: Angel | 16 January 2007 at 23:43

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