Newsletter nº 020, July 2009

 Papers
Gen Y's free and easy life

Getting a group of youngsters to commit to an activity is a real challenge. Anyone who runs an educational establishment for teens can attest to this. Little staying power and lack of commitment to a cause is symptomatic of a generation that relies on instant gratification as the basis for decision-making. But the deeper reason why young people hesitate to make long-term commitments is their ignorance of what true freedom is.
  Luison Lassala
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El sentido del ocio

La finalidad de la diversión es "pasarlo bien", cosa que no sólo es legítima, sino necesaria, puesto que a nadie le gusta pasarlo mal; tenemos derecho a disfrutar, a descansar, a gozar de las cosas buenas de la vida. Sin embargo, hay muchos modos de pasarlo bien, pero unos son mejores que otros. De lo que se trata es de entender cuál es la mejor manera de descansar, divertirse y gozar de las cosas buenas, partiendo, eso sí, de que el descanso y el ocio son una necesidad humana ineludible, puesto que quien no los ejerce pierde la salud en poco tiempo.
  Ricardo Yepes Stork
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 Audio
The Good, True and Beautiful

C.S. Lewis on the three great transcendentals.
Intro (0:00) 1. Definition (Logic) - 12:41 2. Reality (Metaphysics) - 16:43 3. Source (Theology) - 20:02 4. Knowledge (Epistimology) - 22:31 5. Practice (Pyschology) - 25:20 6. Value (Axiology) - 34:42 7. Heaven (Eschatology) - 42:10 Questions (53:07).

  Peter Kreeft
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 Video
The Very Idea of a University: Aristotle, Newman, and Us

Lecture given at St John's College, Oxford, on Tuesday June 9, 2009.
The case that hostile critics have urged against Newman's The Idea of a University is impressive. J.M. Roberts wrote nearly twenty years ago that "it is no longer possible to write a book with such a title... no general doctrine of universities is possible"

 Alasdair MacIntyre
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