So, for those who are keeping track, I’m taking this 1 credit Honors Critical Conversation seminar on Virtues, particularly, the virtue of Charity. But, as I soon discovered, my professor’s interpretation of Charity (and perhaps rightly so) is “Love.” I just finished watching this video, entitled “Light of the Gods”, and it was riddled with some pretty fascinating quotes:
From the Greek poet Zappho:
* “Someone in some future time will think of us.”
*And again, on the contrast between Love and War:
“Some will maintain that the cavalry core or the infantry or the swift oars of our fleet are the finest sights on our dark earth, but I say it is whatever one loves.”
From the Greek poet Pindar:
“His hope is high, and he flies on the wings of his manhood.
Better than riches are his thoughts.
Man’s life is a day.
What is he? What is he not?
But when a God-given rightness comes,
a radiant light rests on man and a gentle life.”
From the Greek Philosopher Heraclytus:
“The only permanence in life is change and that all things contain their own opposites.”
And, lastly, there was a tale about two twins that were found dead after winning a triumphant battle and it was said (as a result of their passing):
“No man can die happy until he lived life with honor and without suffering.”
The greeks were clearly obsessed with the meaning of LOVE, DEATH and FATE. Funny … me too. Hazaa! (forgive me for not making the time to expand on these notions with my own reactions … liberal time is seldom).
However, in skirting around the specific issues at hand, I did have this to think: so much progress is made over time. Its as if few things have ever been started and finished in a single lifetime. Am I wrong to think that people can only introduce change, and that seldom is it a finished contribution? I wonder… what will be my contribution?
Posted by bell at February 11, 2004 06:11 PM | TrackBack