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Dianne Carlson's avatar

John, thanks for your response to my comment on yesterday's discussion. Yes, your are correct my analogy to Milton's "Paradise Lost" flows beautifully into todays revisit of your book "Ethical Realism"

Your quote in the opening of chapter 4 " for what shall it profit an man, if he shall gain whole world, and loose his own soul" reverberates, echo's Ethical Realism!

Have a wonderful weekend

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Misbah's avatar

Thanks John, I'd suggest the break up of Yugoslavia as one to inspect under the ethical realism lens.

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Terri's avatar

Thank you for considering our idea for Substack! I propose either the fall of the Roman Empire or Hiroshima/Nagasaki. But whatever you chose, it will be fantastic!

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Kieran Wilson's avatar

Superb this, John. There’s something about ethical realism that feels right, perhaps because it helps us to do right too.

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John Hulsman's avatar

Thanks Kieran; high praise indeed. I can see in my mind's eye Anatol and I talking quietly at lunch far away from the maddening crowd; wanting to do precisely what you say. Those younger men would be gratified

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Dianne Carlson's avatar

John, Kieran, I can't help but close this week with a quote from a favorite move of mine.

"the more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you" applies for the better, or the worse.

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