...P. B. McDonald Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 The Wisdom of Al-Ghazali P. B. McDonald New York University Over eight centuries ago there lived in central Asia a man whose voluminous writings on ethics and philosophy seem as vivid and as applicable to life as though written...

...James Cannon, III The Wisdom Tree . By Hawkridge Emma . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1945 . Pp. 504 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 262 The South Atlantic Quarterly brought together in a uniform format with thin paper and narrow mar­ gins...

...John H. Fisher Wisdom and Numbers: Toward a Critical Appraisal of the Middle English Religious Lyric . By Manning Stephen . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1962 . Pp. xi , 194 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Book Reviews 437 Wisdom...

...Annie Paul Duke University Press 2006 Annie Paul Body Wisdom: The Way of Karate Why do I learn karate? In this essay I want to answer that question and to convey a reasonably vivid sense of the way karate is less...

...Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Homeric Wisdom and Heroic Friendship R>ets know how to begin. Poets are, in fact, al­ most by definition, especially good at beginning. The seductive art of poetry lies largely in begin­ ning well...

...Ayşe Çavdar Piousness is not a wisdom that guides the individual only in matters pertaining to the afterlife. On the contrary, every religion is a theory formulated to organize the profane world. Depending on the conditions of the times and community, this theory manifests itself in every field...

...Susan Squier The rhetoric of risk and safety has shaped, and unfortunately limited, our contemporary reservoir of responses to H5N1, the avian flu virus. This essay turns to an old children's story, “The Story of Chicken-Licken,” to recover the folk wisdom obscured with the development...

... fields, and, as is also usual, failed to accumulate any particular wisdom to go along with it. It s easy to see why: he has a bright mind and a prehensile memory, and a bright mind may be as much a barrier to wisdom as is any other gift disproportionately bestowed, like a handsome face or excessive...

... for every diligent person. One is tempted to wonder if the eager reading today of contem­ porary literature is developing in the minds of readers a discriminat­ ing judgment of values and a consequent growth in wisdom. Unless one is content to build his personality on the shifting sands of relativ­ ism...

... the primary cause, as she has been of the entire action. It is by her wisdom that both she and Winwife are liberated into the decorous marriage. She thus becomes the true fertility figure of this comedy. To see as a fertility figure a character whose cold decorum has been said to afford only a rather...

..., in the broadest sense, to give men a sense of balance, proportion, perspective, and judgment. Humanistic education has for its ultimate goal the cultivation of tolerance, in­ tellectual humility, and wisdom. The Latin word humanitas, from which our word humanities is derived, connoted the highest and most...

... of the conscious mind, it admits for certaine, that in every one of us there is some seede of folly, the which beeing stirred may multiply (in a maner) infinite. In the tragicomic war of heart and mind wisdom seems to have particularly little relevance. The quest for wisdom in Castiglione is often viewed...

.... Unless the schools and colleges can make a large contribution to this high leader­ ship of ideas in the service of the republic, then education has a small mission in America; for education, like wisdom of old, must be justified of her children. The ranks of this chosen body have always been thin...

.... But the tragi-comedies are the best of his stories. It is of a little volume entitled Negro Tales that I am think­ ing. Here we have the story-teller the born one, if you choose and the sage the natural one, if again you choose; the teacher, too, but more, and truly, the artist. For the wisdom...

... that go to Stephen MacKenna s Plotinus and to the Timaeus. What Whitehead calls the three provincial centuries are over. Wisdom and Poetry return. When Yeats proclaimed the return of Wisdom and Poetry, Olney concludes, he also proclaimed his belief in the living system of Platonism...

.... Wisdom and Poetry return. When Yeats proclaimed the return of Wisdom and Poetry, Olney concludes, he also proclaimed his belief in the living system of Platonism that is the Perennial Philosophy, the rhizome system connecting Whitehead with Plotinus and Plato, and all three of them with Yeats...

..., by theologians and literary scholars alike, share the common assumption that literature is potentially capable of inciting to wisdom; and that literary criticism should therefore call upon all fields of modem knowledge for its insights. Not the least of these fields is the manydimensioned area commonly known...

... of things. He was a scholar without ostentation and pedantry; his noble nature implanted in him from his cradle a love of wisdom above all things; like all fine spirits of the earth he had a delicate susceptibility to the beautiful things in the outward world, in the inner character of men and in liter­...

... for research nor as a bower of dreams, but as a school of experience. There is something here of kinship with the Hebrew psalmist, for by inquiring of the sages of the He Searched the Past 51 past and taking thought thereto, Professor Babbitt believed he might get him a heart of wisdom. It was Babbitt s...

.... That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom.” Morrison supports Obama not because he is the black candidate, but because he possesses wisdom. And what defines this noble quality? Morrison goes on to explain, “Wisdom is a gift; you can’t train for it, inherit...