Sublime

For the new functionary, however, things are more complex. Talent, not death, charts his course. He sees before him a summit rather than a centre.

merit of traditional religious world-views

Explicitly drawing on black traditions of family, he imagined a partnership, extended kin networks, friendships, and gay social worlds as constituting something more vital.

At the center of his analysis was the insistence that modern man, “like Macbeth,” had made an evil decision to trade allegiance to transcendent principles for present gain.

their concern with man-in-the-cosmos, man as species being, and the contingency of life.

I. A. Richards, Mircea Eliade, Clyde Kluckhohn, or Jerome Bruner for

Hawaiian

transforming fatality into continuity