Hello,
As 'n poging om die onderwerp van bespreking te verander verwys ek na onderwerpe geluister en gelees hierdie week wat ek dink van belang vir die ander deelnemers ook kan wees. Daar is veel meer bevredigende onderwerpe te bespreek as 'Wouter Ferns'.
Na Comestor se verwysing na Christina Rossetti het ek onthou van 'n program wat in my argiewe beskikbaar is waarin Melvyn Bragg tesame met sy gaste die werk en lewe van Christina Rossetti bespreek:
Christina Rossetti
Duration: 45 minutes
First broadcast: Thursday 01 December 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti. Rossetti was born into an artistic family and her siblings included Dante Gabriel, one of the leading lights of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, to whose journal, 'The Germ', Christina contributed poems. She was a devout Anglican all her life and her religious beliefs are a recurring theme in her work. Christina never married, although she was engaged twice - one of her fiancés was the Pre-Raphaelite painter, James Collinson. She spent her time writing and volunteering for charitable works. It is said she even considered going to the Crimea with Florence Nightingale, but in the end ill health prevented her from doing so. Best known for her ballads and long narrative poems, she also wrote some prose and children's verses. Christina was admired by contemporaries including Swinburne, Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Her work was to have an influence on later writers such as Virginia Woolf and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Rossetti's poetry has a spirituality and sensitivity that has led to her redisovery in recent decades, not least by feminist critics who praise her powerful and independent poetic voice.
With:
Dinah Birch - Professor of English Literature and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research at Liverpool University
Rhian Williams - Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Glasgow
Nicholas Shrimpton - Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Daardie program kan hier geluister word:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b017mvwy
(Dit kan nie gesien word hoe Rossetti haar self as minderwaardig vir die hemel gesien het nie.)
George se onlangse vraag oor die selibate lewe van die Rooms Katolieke vind aanvalling in die bespreking wat vandag oor my tafel gekom het in afwagting van die gewone IPOD speellys van programme wat ek vir die komende week gaan opstel:
Celibacy
Duration: 30 minutes
First broadcast: Monday 10 June 2013
The role of celibacy differs cross-culturally among religious traditions, with some insisting on it and others prohibiting it. Obligatory celibacy for Catholic priests in the West was introduced in 1130, yet in other traditions, such as Islam, marriage for their spiritual leaders is positively encouraged and celibacy, whilst not forbidden, is seen as second class. Is celibacy an essential requirement for real closeness to God or not? And given that it's basis is essentially cultural rather than theological, should celibacy be optional across religions?
Joining Ernie Rea to discuss celibacy across religions are Professor Carl Olsen, Prof of Religious Studies at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, and Editor of the book, Celibacy and Religious Traditions; Dr Helen Costigane SHCJ, member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, who teaches Canon Law and Christian Ethics at Heythrop College, University of London, and Sheikh Michael Mumisa, Islamic scholar at the University of Cambridge.
Daardie program kan hier geluister word:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b02mfzp6
Ook so met bye waar George 'n veel meer sober inslag getoon het wat my laat gaan soek het van programme voor die een van 5 June 2013 wat ek onder George se brief as kommentaar geplaas het en vind dan die volgende waardevolle program in my argiewe wat vrylik beskikbaar is:
Dancing In The Dark: The Intelligence of Bees
Bees are remarkable among insects. They can count, remember human faces, and communicate through dance routines performed entirely in the dark. But are they intelligent? Even creative? Bee aficionado Stephen Humphrey, along with a hive of leading bee researchers and scientists, investigates the mental lives of bees.
In summer of 2011, Stephen Humphrey went out west to spend time with his family - and one million bees. Stephen's mother and step-father are bee-keepers. Their bee-yards, 22 of them, are spread across two counties, in Northern Alberta. Every morning, six days a week, Stephen - a notoriously late sleeper, was up bright and early, doing his best to get "Bee Ready". Off he'd go, by truck or by foot, to the 'honey bee' hives.
Dancing In the Dark: The Intelligence of Bees was originally broadcast on June 12, 2012
Daardie program kan hier geluister word:
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2013/05/23/dancing-in-the-dark-the-intelligence-of-bees-3/
Die volgende is 'n amusante stuk wat ek gelees het en handel oor 'n debat tussen Joel Osteen & Arthur Schopenhauer en word definitief aanbeveel:
Inleidend:
JOEL OSTEEN: Arthur, I’m so glad you came to join us at Lakewood Church today. We love you. You are one of a kind. You are a masterpiece. You are a prized possession. When you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror, instead of getting depressed, instead of saying, “Oh man. Look how old I look. Look at this gray hair. Look at these wrinkles,” you need to smile and say, “Good morning, you beautiful thing. Good morning, you blessed, prosperous, successful, strong, talented, creative, confident, secure, disciplined, focused, highly favored child of the most high God!”
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER: This world is a scene of tormented and agonized beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore, every ravenous beast is the living grave of thousands of others, and its self-maintenance is a chain of painful deaths; and in which the capacity for feeling pain increases with knowledge.
SCHOPENHAUER: Children are innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.
OSTEEN: The Bible says, “Rejoice in the Lord always.” One translation says, “Be happy all the time.”
SCHOPENHAUER: The inmost kernel of Christianity is the truth that suffering—the cross—is the real end and object of life. That in recent times Christianity has forgotten its true significance, and degenerated into dull optimism, does not concern us here.
Die hele gesprek kan hier gelees word:
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/019_05/10808
Noem my depressief maar ek is met Schopenhauer & hoop ek CM lees hier en ook Comestor ...
Laastens, ek is my aanhalings en verwysings:
In die onlangse BBC Magazine hierdie opstel:
Why does France insist school pupils master philosophy?
By Hugh Schofield
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22729780
Why this emphasis on philosophy in France?
Other countries have school-leaving exams which cover the history of ideas and religion and so on. But the French are very clear that that is not what theirs is. The purpose of the philosophy Bac is not to understand the history of human thought but to leap into the stream that is the actuality of human thought. If you learn about what Kant or Spinoza once said, it is not so much to understand their argument as to use their argument.
Hierdie kan in die lig gesien word van die tradisie van die 'commonplace book' waar lang stukke deur die leser versamel is en opgeskryf is vir latere gebruik in argument.
Baie dankie
Wouter