Moving Paideia to Full Blown Blog
Moving Paideia to Full Blown Blog

Sawdust Diet - an Interview with Leon Kass
What does it mean to be human? I think that I would come at the question of our humanity partly through the essential human activities and the fundamental human relations. The fundamental human relations are partly given by the facts of our neediness and our mortality and our aspirations and our affections. Our needs drive us to have some relation to the world. Our mortality leads us to be mindful of time and also to provide for our replacement. Our aspirations and our attachments bring us in relation to other human beings, particularly those who give us life and those whom we befriend and love and

The Law the Lawyers Know About
The Law the Lawyers Know About The law the lawyers know aboutIs property and land;But why the leaves are on the trees,And why the wind disturbs the seas,Why honey is the food of bees,Why horses have such tender knees,Why winters come and rivers freeze,Why Faith is more than what one sees,And Hope survives the worst disease,And Charity is more than these, They do not understand. -- H.D.C. Pepler

St. Basil the Great - from Cathedral in Ohrid
St. Basil the Great - from Cathedral in Ohrid

"The Sirens" - Robinson Jeffers
Perhaps we desire death: or why is poison so sweet? Why do the little Sirens Make kindlier music, for a man caught in the net of the world Between news-cast and work-desk,- The little chirping Sirens, alcohol, amusement, opiates, And carefully sterilized lust,- Than the angels of life? Really it is rather strange, for the angels Have all the power on their side. All the importance:- men turn away from them, preferring their own Vulgar inventions, the little Trivial Sirens. Here is another sign that the age needs renewal.