New Oxford Notes: December 2012
Rushing Death
The elderly and the under-pressure organ donor have reason to distrust the falsely compassionate, as advocates of legalized euthanasia threaten to undermine the foundation of medical care as we've known it.
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Solitude's Strange Allure
Postmodern man's preference for isolation signifies his alienation from his true nature and a general ambivalence about his ultimate end in communion with God.
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The popular consensus method, like so much of modern life and culture, has its roots in 18th-century romanticism, and in Rousseau.
The greatest gap is not between something minuscule and something immense, but between something and nothing. Existence is more important than size.