A problem in Greek ethics, being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists /

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Human rights and the phenomenon of disappearances [microform] : hearings before the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, September 20, 25, and October 18, 1979.

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On the Interest in Beauty and Disinterest

Contemporary philosophical attitudes toward beauty are hard to reconcile with its importance in the history of philosophy. Philosophers used to allow it a starring role in their theories of autonomy, morality, or the good life. But today, if beauty is discussed at all, it is often explicitly denied any such importance. This is due, in part, to the thought that beauty is the object of “disinterested pleasure”. In this paper I clarify the notion of disinterest and develop two general strategies for resisting the emphasis on it, in the hopes of getting a clearer view of beauty’s significance. I present and discuss several literary depictions of the encounter with beauty that motivate both strategies. These depictions illustrate the ways in which aesthetic experience can be personally transformative. I argue that they present difficulties for disinterest theories and suggest we abandon the concept of disinterest to focus instead on the special kind of interest beauty fuels. I propose a closer look at the Platonic thought that beauty is the object of love.

Principles of western civilisation,

The close of an era. -- The shifting of the centre of significance in the evolutionary hypothesis. -- The principle of projected efficiency. -- The position in modern thought. -- The phenomenon of western liberalism. -- The problem. -- The ascendency of the present. -- The passing of the present under the control of the future. -- The development of the great antinomy in western history. -- The modern world-conflict. -- Towards the future.

Effects of acid rain [microform] : hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session ....

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