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Civic Virtues as Moral Facts: Recovering the Other Half of Our Founding
Commentary
Until a half century ago or so, there was a moral consensus, however fraying, that informed and shaped the exercise of freedom in the Western world. The self-determination of human beings, of citizens in self-governing political orders, presupposed a civilized inheritance that allowed free men and women to distinguish, without angst or arduous effort, between liberty and license, good and evil, honorable lives and dissolute and disgraceful ones. Few would have suggested that liberty and human dignity could long flourish without a sense of moral obligation and civic spirit on the part of proud, rights-bearing individuals.
What will become of a tycoon s art gems?
Real estate developer Sheldon Solow with his son, Stefan Soloviev, in New York, March 8, 2018. Its the art worlds new guessing game: Will Solows paintings and sculptures, conservatively valued at $500 million, be heading to a private museum or to auction? George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Katya Kazakina
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- In an apartment high above Manhattan, paintings by van Gogh, Matisse and Modigliani overlooked the East River and tribal artworks and Egyptian antiquities mingled with Giacometti bronzes and furniture. Several blocks west, a monumental Miró bronze stood guard by a skyscraper known for its sloping glass facade and masterpieces inside.