Join Notes
A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
With Nightblood, she and Vasher had spent much time in thought, then finally chosen a simple, yet elegant, Command. “Destroy evil.” It had seemed like such a perfect, logical choice. There was only one problem, something neither of them had foreseen. How was an object of steel—an object that was so removed from life that it would find the experience of living strange and alien—supposed to understand what “evil” was?
Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson
And with respect to the problem of beauty—is this beauty intended? Or is it something that is the natural expression of a beautiful spirit? Is the beauty of the bird’s song intentional? In what sense is it intentional? Or is it the expression of the bird, the beauty of the bird’s spirit, you might say? I think that way very often about this art. To what degree was the intention of the artist what we would call “aesthetic” or to what degree expressive? And to what degree is the art something that they had simply learned to do that way?
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Overall, it appears that more than 15,000 “human cognitive sex difference” studies were performed between 1968 and 2008. The enthusiasm for this area of research does not appear to be slowing, given that more than 4,000 of these studies occurred between 1998 and 2008.
A Tapestry of Values
Kevin C. Elliott
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