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...world? Is anyone on this globe worse off? So often without bread, never any rest!’ His wife, his children, soldiers, tax officers, Debt, and drudgery Complete for him this image of misfortune. He calls on Death, who comes without delay, Asking what is required. ‘I want you’, he says, ‘to help me Reload this wood. Then you can go.’ Death cures all; But let us not...

...world goes about its business. The American poet William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) wrote the following poem about Pieter Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, (1555): Landscape with the Fall of Icarus According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea...

...world is determined. It is not clear how exactly to characterize determinism. One popular definition is that every event has a cause. Nothing happens unless there is something to make it happen. Think of any event in the world. There was some set of circumstances that existed prior to the event such that those circumstances caused that event to happen and so, in that...

...world, not a casual fact, irrelevant to a person’s core identity - any more than is being Jewish or black or old. Nor is being a woman simply a matter of one’s own choice: precisely how you are a woman may be up to you, but the fact that you are a woman and that this fact makes a great deal of difference is imposed on you by your situation. Here is clear that Beauvoir...