Comments on: Much Missed http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/ Chris Brooke's Weblog Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:05:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: chris.brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-405 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:15:48 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-405 And Don Paskini has <a href="http://don-paskini.blogspot.com/2006/10/ewen-green-1958-2006.html" rel="nofollow">more</a>. And Don Paskini has more.

]]> by: Sarah http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-373 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:19:13 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-373 Guardian obituary <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1883577,00.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Guardian obituary here.

]]> by: James Hamilton http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-335 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:54:23 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-335 I am very sorry indeed to hear this. Ewen turned up at Magd just after I'd left, and I'd heard many good things about him. Only had the pleasure of meeting him once, but it was a real pleasure. I am very sorry indeed to hear this. Ewen turned up at Magd just after I’d left, and I’d heard many good things about him. Only had the pleasure of meeting him once, but it was a real pleasure.

]]> by: Lorna http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-312 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:36:18 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-312 Sorry to hear about your loss. Sorry to hear about your loss.

]]> by: Joseph Harder http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-291 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:18:41 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-291 That leaves one last conundrum..what passage from TS Eliots The Idea of A Christian Society would be appropiate?The only Eliot I own is the collected Poems and Plays..so I got Kermodes Selected Prose of TS Eliot out of the (meager) library of the Community College where (I try) to teach. The passages reprinted from Idea are excellent prose and..not surprisingly-powerful thinking. Iwill mail you one such as soon as possible. That leaves one last conundrum..what passage from TS Eliots The Idea of A Christian Society would be appropiate?The only Eliot I own is the collected Poems and Plays..so I got Kermodes Selected Prose of TS Eliot out of the (meager) library of the Community College where (I try) to teach. The passages reprinted from Idea are excellent prose and..not surprisingly-powerful thinking. Iwill mail you one such as soon as possible.

]]> by: chris.brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-276 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 04:14:34 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-276 I think Sarah's right: the closing passages are surprisingly eloquent, given Rawls's reputation as a prose stylist (though he was also capable of magnificent lines like his own description of his book from the Introduction, or wherehaveyou: "it is a long book, and not only in pages".) I think Sarah’s right: the closing passages are surprisingly eloquent, given Rawls’s reputation as a prose stylist (though he was also capable of magnificent lines like his own description of his book from the Introduction, or wherehaveyou: “it is a long book, and not only in pages”.)

]]> by: Sarah http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-273 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:09:08 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-273 I think the sort of person who'd want Rawls at a funeral might think that the last half paragraph or so of that, too, was rather inspiring... I think the sort of person who’d want Rawls at a funeral might think that the last half paragraph or so of that, too, was rather inspiring…

]]> by: Ben http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-271 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:22:12 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-271 Sorry to hear that too. I wonder what parts of A Theory of Justice could possibly be considered for a funeral. Sorry to hear that too.

I wonder what parts of A Theory of Justice could possibly be considered for a funeral.

]]> by: chris.brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-264 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:07:13 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-264 Josh: Thanks. Jason: Did he teach you? Joseph: See your inbox. Josh: Thanks.

Jason: Did he teach you?

Joseph: See your inbox.

]]> by: Joseph Harder http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-260 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:17:42 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2006/09/23/obituary/#comment-260 He sounds like he was a wonderful man..on reflection,Id like to suggest the closing paragraphs of After Virtue as an appropiate reading for his funeral He sounds like he was a wonderful man..on reflection,Id like to suggest the closing paragraphs of After Virtue as an appropiate reading for his funeral

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