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From:Daedalus (Vol. 138, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 1992, at the start of the surprisingly short decade's march toward the sequencing of the human genome, one of its key initiators, geneticist Walter Gilbert, claimed that "one will be able to pull a CD out of one's...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public LifeIt is not entirely a straw man that he is attacking. For a long time now, especially among educators, there has, in fact, been an influential school of thought at war with the very idea of human nature. Everything is...
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From:The Review of Metaphysics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTHIS ESSAY IS A RECONSIDERATION of William James's Varieties of Religious Experience, a work intended by James as a study of the more revealing features of human nature. Significant among James's contributions, the...
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From:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This essay seeks to contribute to our understanding of William James's ethics by reexamining a classic text--The Varieties of Religious Experience--that is not usually read in an ethical light. It shows that...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI woke up to the singsong call of the doorbell. Though the lights were on in the basement, it still felt like the middle of the night, and as the sound rang through the house, loud and rude, I looked up at the ceiling...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMaryland, 2011 On the front page: homicide. Blunt force trauma. One girl. Another left alive, almost able to speak when she's found on the floor of the upscale yoga store. For a week, the story is two men anonymous...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article will summarize views about 'human nature' proposed by leading philosophers of the Western Canon. These views will later be contrasted with the viewpoint of Muhyiddin IbnArabi on 'human nature. The question...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"It's your rabbit," the officer told the soldier who pointed his rifle at the fleeing enemy child. The child was quick in the wheat, so it took three shots before he tumbled into the afterlife. Many years later I put...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 87, Issue 3)The truth about little Charlie Lindbergh's murder? A hero's dark love of eugenics. President Kennedy's lone killer, or the Tonkin Gulf incident: ghosts that still haunt us pushing fantasy as fact or fact as fantasy. A...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMy first impulse upon seeing a woman breast-feeding is to grab the child and place the child under a tree and slide into the warm space so recently emptied. My second is to be embarrassed by my first. My third is to...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 57, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThey aren't hissing at me like yesterday, when I didn't have the five for gas. No work today and too hot inside, so the fireworks boom and split open the bright like blinds. Nice and dumb; dumb and nice. That's me....
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 66, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSection Three: Kant, Human Nature, and Good and Evil 3.1. Humans are Ends INTERVIEWER: You see Kant as very important, and Sandel also talks a lot about Kant. What do you think of him? LI: Kant is the foremost...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 42, Issue 4)Someone's in a Hawaiian shirt again out on the parquet, doing the white-guy dance to Celebrate good times, come on! , one palm cemented to a sudsy bowl adorned with mini parasol that will end up between his teeth like...
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From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 55, Issue 1)(cc) 55-0130 B72 MARC Scruton, Roger. On human nature. Princeton, 2017. 151p indexes ISBN 9780691168753 cloth, $22.95; ISBN 9781400884667 ebook, contact publisher for price British writer and philosopher...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI. cannot be consoled, will not. Disconsulate, -contented,-couraged, it doesn't end. The churned up, bitten earth. Two deer in a field in November waiting, rapt, for spring. You say nothing. Who knows we're here? Every...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 91, Issue 3)I pull from the nut an ashing tree to shade the baking hill and follow the ants as they drill for attacks by the hungry or curious or cruel the summer Tara Calico is killed we think or just taken we pray. Dad puts on...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 92, Issue 1)The little boy on the sidewalk is dressed like a riot cop-- a green visor eclipses the top of his face, a black vest hangs loose on his chest. He's dancing. Takes two steps to the side, shakes his hips, and clumsily...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed
Eberlein, Xujun A WHITE CANDLE; A HALF JAR OF HONEY. THE HONEY IS NOT IN HIS VIEW right now. The honey is in the jar; he is sitting on the low bed. But his senses are filled with honey, dense, thick. The... -
From:New England Review (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMy friend A. possesses a kind of wireless optimism. Has to recharge sometimes but otherwise always has it with her. I'd concluded I don't know how to love without hating. A. said I needed a break from meaning's...
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From:The Carolina Quarterly (Vol. 68, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedClanging down the train lines at first light, the rumble sets the rate by hours or weeks, and we are here with the usual tinfoil tricks-- fingers to lips, curtains drawn up tight, tracing each others' faithless tattoos:...