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In the News (Tue 2 Dec 08)

  
  peirce
Peirce was a strong idealist—believing that there were in nature ultimate ideal forms of actual and conceptual things (including truth and beauty) and that the properties of these forms were real, whether or not anyone ever came to recognize them as such.
Peirce conceived the role of inquiry as a process of unfolding the properties of these forms and eventually reaching an ideal truth.
Qualities are properties of things having to do sensation (sight, smell, sound, texture, etc.)--opinions or attitudes (joy, sadness, beauty, injustice, etc.)--and mental (logical) determinations (size, shape, number, etc.).
www.vusst.hr /ENCYCLOPAEDIA/peirce.htm   (3393 words)

  
 Gaslight Digest Wednesday, June 2 1999 Volume 01 : Number 073
Regarding, then, Beauty as my province, my next question referred to the tone of its highest manifestation--and all experience has shown that this tone is one of sadness.
Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
In fact, "Through the Ivory Gate" has this very sad line as the young man visits the house his mother grew up in as a girl: "There was the huge mahogany sofa, horsehair-covered, in the window under the stairs, where his mother had read IVANHOE and THE TALISMAN.
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 How to deal with information/art/life overload? | Ask MetaFilter
That infinite abyss of data should be looked at as potentially the most beautiful thing man has ever created.
And yes, I should be happy about the access to things that we have now truly rather than sad.
With novels I really want to read a good one, but don't really know how to judge if I will like it if it is not in the context of a class, where I will get the most out of it as possible.
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 BookSense.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A landmark literary novel by Canadian award-winner Toews, A Complicated Kindness balances unbearable sadness, beauty, and unexpected humor in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is destroyed by fundamentalist Christianity.
Bring the splendor and beauty of the Italian countryside to your home with this stunningly illustrated book by the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun.
In Caldecott winner Paul Goble's boldly illustrated book, which strongly evokes his adopted homeland in the Great Plains, all of nature, from majestic mountains to thundering wild horses to tiny fluttering butterflies, joins in a joyful song of creation.
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