"Reflections on Good Friday," with Tallis's "Lamentations of Jeremiah," spirituals, motets and other works; Kent Tritle, music director.
As a man of letters he was sensitive to the connections between culture and morals, and he believed that it was the duty of the critic to point them out, as can be seen from Riflessioni sopra il buon gusto (1708; "Reflections on Good Taste").
Peter Steinfels's reflections on good and evil (Beliefs column, Oct. 13) left out the Humanist perspective: that the universe is indifferent to us and our fate, that we humans define good and evil in compassionate concert with people of good will regardless of persuasion.
The novel is framed by some quasi-philosophical reflections on good and evil from a local sheriff, who has lived too long and seen too much that is bad and corrupt in the world, and whose observations provide at least some context for the action.
Toward the end of the concert, Strait did a stretch of songs -- "I'll Always Remember You," "Troubadour," "Give It All We Got Tonight" -- heavy with reflections on good times past, as though he were working toward the farewell he'd advertised.
Research shows that two minutes of reflection on a good argument can change a person's mind.
The youngster looked crestfallen to be 'strangled', which may be a reflection on how good he thinks the pitch is.
And then it comes — the reflection on our good taste: "But, of course, you young people are bored by small parties.
And then it comes the reflection on our good taste: "But, of course, you young people are bored by small parties.
Procedural accounts of autonomy can include Nussbaum's approach, not as definitive of the kinds of lives women should live, but as an important contribution to the kind of reflection on the good life on which personal autonomy depends.
