The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
Author: Lionel Trilling
Publsiher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780810124882

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The America of John Dos Passos -- Hemingway and his critics -- T.S. Eliot's politics -- The immortality ode -- Kipling -- Reality in America -- Art and neurosis -- Manners, morals, and the novel -- The Kinsey report -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Princess Casamassima -- Wordsworth and the Rabbis -- William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste -- The poet as hero: Keats in his letters -- George Orwell and the politics of truth -- The situation of the American intellectual at the present time -- Mansfield Park -- Isaac Babel -- The morality of inertia -- "That smile of Parmenides made me think"--The last lover -- A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode -- On the teaching of modern literature -- The Leavis-Snow controversy -- The fate of pleasure -- James Joyce in his letters -- Mind in the modern world -- Art, will, and necessity -- Why we read Jane Austen.

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
Author: Lionel Trilling
Publsiher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2001-10-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781466832145

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A landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work has been discussed and hotly debated, yet today, when writers and critics claim to be "for" or "against" his interpretations, they can hardly be well acquainted with them, for his work has been largely out of print for years. With this re-publication of Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many new generations a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces--on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on "Art and Neurosis"; and the famous Preface to Trilling's book The Liberal Imagination. This exhilarating work has much to teach readers who may have been encouraged to adopt simpler systems of meaning, or were taught to exchange the ideals of reason and individuality for those of enthusiasm and the false romance of group identity. Trilling's remarkable essays show a critic who was philosophically motivated and textually responsible, alive to history but not in thrall to it, exercised by art but not worshipful of it, consecrated to ideas but suspicious of theory.

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and Other Essays

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and Other Essays
Author: John Erskine
Publsiher: ISCI
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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The book contains the following works of John Erskine, Ph.D: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent, The Call to Service, The Mind of Shakespeare and Magic and Wonder in Literature. The title essay, originally read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Amherst College, is reprinted with the editor's courteous permission from the Hibbert Journal. The last essay also was read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Amherst College, and before the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni of New York City. In different ways the four essays set forth one theme — the moral use to which intelligence might be put, in rendering our admirations and our loyalties at once more sensible and more noble.

The Liberal Imagination

The Liberal Imagination
Author: Lionel Trilling
Publsiher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012-07-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781590175514

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The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asserting in their stead the irreducible complexity of human motivation and the tragic inevitability of tragedy. Only the imagination, Trilling argues, can give us access and insight into these realms and only the imagination can ground a reflective and considered, rather than programmatic and dogmatic, liberalism. Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessary—and ever more remote.

The Moral Landscape

The Moral Landscape
Author: Sam Harris
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781439171226

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Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.

Intelligent Disobedience

Intelligent Disobedience
Author: Ira Chaleff
Publsiher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781626564282

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Torture in Abu Ghraib prison. Corporate fraud. Falsified records at Veterans Administration hospitals. Teachers pressured to feed test answers to students. These scandals could have been prevented if, early on, people had said no to their higher-ups. Ira Chaleff discusses when and how to disobey inappropriate orders, reduce unacceptable risk, and find better ways to achieve legitimate goals. He delves into the psychological dynamics of obedience, drawing in particular on what Stanley Milgram's seminal Yale experiments-in which volunteers were induced to administer shocks to innocent people-teach us about how to reduce compliance with harmful orders. Using vivid examples of historical events and everyday situations, he offers advice on judging whether intelligent disobedience is called for, how to express opposition, and how to create a culture where citizens are educated and encouraged to think about whether orders make sense. --

Moral Obligation

Moral Obligation
Author: Gary Sowell
Publsiher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2009-09-18
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781449028787

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Moral Obligation is based upon a group of true stories that makes you think about what you would do if you were put in the same situations. This book does not make any judgement on any one nor does it decide right from wrong. It allowes you to make your own decision on what it means to you and how it will effect you in the future.

SINCERITY AND AUTHENTICITY

SINCERITY AND AUTHENTICITY
Author: Lionel TRILLING
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674044463

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“Now and then,” writes Lionel Trilling, “it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself.” In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one’s self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral life—and the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity. Instances range over the whole of Western literature and thought, from Shakespeare to Hegel to Sartre, from Robespierre to R.D. Laing, suggesting the contradictions and ironies to which the ideals of sincerity and authenticity give rise, most especially in contemporary life. Lucid, and brilliantly framed, its view of cultural history will give Sincerity and Authenticity an important place among the works of this distinguished critic.