...a better and a worse human beings and affairs and aspire with more or less distinctness to realize the good and exclude the ill. But while they all join...the estimates that rise spontaneously in the mind. These judgments constitute a body of ethical facts and it is the aim of ethical science to strip from...

...a better and a worse human beings and affairs and aspire with more or less distinctness to realize the good and exclude the ill. But while they all join...the estimates that rise spontaneously in the mind. These judgments constitute a body of ethical facts and it is the aim of ethical science to strip from...

...interest to biography and fiction, the needful authority to law and the highest power to religion. While they all join in the confession that there is...the estimates that rise spontaneously in the mind," and certain traits are admired and certain characteristics despised with an absolute inner assurance...

...national story. The politics of conciliation is an antidote to uplift, a relaxation of the tension between life as it is and life as it ought to be. It is a romance of restoration. Its heroes are politicians who manage to get themselves perceived as...

...clear in Graham Greene on Film, rooted in Chekhov's idea that the only matter for art is the contrast between life as it is and life as it ought to be. He dislikes the work of Robert Flaherty, the most admired pioneer documentary filmmaker, for Raherty's...

...to an audience the yawning gap between the text and the subtext, between actuality and aspiration, between 'life as it is' and 'life as it ought to be' and thus to communicate Chekhov's vision of reality. Chekhov's characteristic method of creating a...

...describe an actual state of affairs. Consequently, there is not, or there cannot be, a discrepancy between life as it is and life as it ought to be. Of course, that does not preclude the possibility of a monk not conforming or not li ving up to the...