The overlooked virtue: Blindness- August 24, 2006 It is fitting that the greatest poet in ancient Greece was blind. Homer, the man who almost single handedly crafted the ethical precepts of our Athenian forebears with The Odyssey and The Iliad, never saw the faces of the human...http://johncoleman.typepad.com/ex_nihilo/2006/08/the_overlooked_.html The virtue of community- August 21, 2006 I have a theory about M. Night Shyamalan: Every other movie he makes is good. The Sixth Sense good. Unbreakable bad. Signs good. The Village bad. As a director, he has developed a consistent pattern of...http://johncoleman.typepad.com/ex_nihilo/2006/08/the_virtue_of_c.html Stuck with virtue- August 1, 2006 My senior year at Berry, one of my favorite professors taught a class entitled Virtue. To be honest, I never knew exactly what we were studying. All the classical virtues were tossed about at some point justice, mercy, prudence...http://johncoleman.typepad.com/ex_nihilo/2006/08/stuck_with_virt.html |