RE: The Humanities
December 24, 2019 at 7:31 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2019 at 7:32 pm by possibletarian.)
(December 23, 2019 at 6:59 pm)Belacqua Wrote: It usually pays to look for the subtext or underlying assumptions in these non-religious works. Romance literature, while not explicitly Christian, would have been impossible in a non-Christian context.
How so ?
Quote:I hope that such a framework is possible someday. Though individuals today may or may not value those things, the messages we get through the media are often very different. I also suspect that things like "empathy" are too abstract to stick with people. Such things need embodiment in a story or larger framework to have force.
Again, how so ?
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'