Little more than a series of jottings

Little more than a series of jottings

Like all animals we act with reference to the future. But unlike other animals, we are self-conscious; we are aware that ordinary life is an unintelligible sequence of actions. Thus, we alone are also equipped to look to an ordering principle which will give intelligibility in mere sequence. For Aristotle, that principle is virtue.

Ahmadinejad: Iran has broken 'Holocaust idol'

Iran has “broken the idol” of the Holocaust, said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his speech on the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

“The West and the colonialists have created an idol they call the Zionist regime. The spirit of this idol is the Holocaust (…) and the Iranian nation, with courage and foresight, has broken the idol, preparing the release of Western people, “said Ahmadinejad, who sparked international outcry by denying several times in the past, the genocide of Jews during World War II. (AFP)