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“I was being advised to give up a common female idolatry and take on a common male idolatry,” she said. “But I didn’t want to have my self-worth dependent on career success any more than on men. I wanted to be free.”
Timothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
Aristotle’s starting-point in chapter 14 is the relationship between characters. The tragic effect is enhanced when people inflict harm on those ‘closely connected with them’. This rather clumsy expression (which we met also in chapter 11, in connection with recognition) is an attempt to render the Greek word philos, conventionally translated as ‘f
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He was much obliged to Casaubon in the past, but really the act of marrying this wife was a set-off against the obligation. It was a question whether gratitude which refers to what is done for one’s self ought not to give way to indignation at what is done against another. And Casaubon had done a wrong to Dorothea in marrying her. A man was bound t
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