From the bleak mid-winter of our souls, we emerge into hope. When we hope, we look to the future, as we wish it to be. It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day,…
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Value for Sunday of Week 19 in the season of Growth
Meeting Obligations in the World
A core commitment to honoring everyone’s intrinsic worth implies obligations in our material/conceptual relations. These include taking an interest, reasoning, and working.
- . . . every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty. [John D. Rockefeller]
- Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. [Edward R. Murrow]
- You cheat yourself when you don’t do what it is you’re supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can. [attributed to Marla Gibbs]
A functioning society depends on a citizenry that functions at a certain level of competence. Throughout the United States, we have mandatory education laws to ensure that children will attain a basic level of competence before they become adults.
Families depend on members who provide for the family’s needs. Throughout the United States, we have laws that require responsible family members to support their dependents.
This is the obligation level of ethics: the level of responsibility to provide for basic needs. Though our obligations in the world arise from our relationships to each other, this topic refers not to our relations with others per se but to our relationship to the world, including the work world.
Real
True Narratives
Technical and Analytical Readings
Photographs
Documentary and Educational Films
Imaginary
Fictional Narratives
Poetry
Sun rises and sets everyday; / Moon rises and sets everyday; / Plough man ploughs the field; / Poets love to compose poems!
Some love to do duty well; / But many do only for profit. / How duty has to be done? / What do duty, work mean?
Duty is done expecting none; / Work is done expecting some. / Duty and work all have to do; / But duty, works are different!
Duty is life work for everyone; / Work is done to live life here!
[Ramesh T.A., “Duty and Work”]
Music: Composers, artists, and major works
Franz Josef Haydn’s middle symphonies mark a transition from the baroque into the classical era. Scored for full orchestra, they represent a further emergence into an integrated world. Still, they bear the hallmarks of early compositions, in which the composer – albeit a master composer – was only beginning to explore the new genre.
- Symphony No. 38 in C Major, Hob. I:38, "Echo" (1768) (approx. 18-19’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 39 in G Minor, Hob. I:39, "Tempestra di Mare" (1768) (approx. 18’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 40 in F Major, Hob. I:40 (1763) (approx. 15-17’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 41 in C Major, Hob. I:41 (1769) (approx. 18-19’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 42 in D Major, Hob. I:42 (1771) (approx. 24-28’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 43 in E-flat Major, Hob. I:43, "Merkur" (Mercury) (1771) (approx. 22-32’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 44 in E Minor, Hob. I:44, "Trauer" (Mourning) (1771) (approx. 28’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 46 in B Major, Hob. I:46 (1772) (approx. 18-19’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 47 in G Major, Hob. I:47, "Palindrome" (1772) (approx. 23-24’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 48 in C Major, Hob. I:48, "Mother Theresia" (1769) (approx. 27-33’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49, "La Passione" (The Passion) (1768) (approx. 22-26’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 50 in C Major, Hob. I:50, In Nomine Domini” (In the Name of the Lord) (1773) (approx. 17-18’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 51 in B-flat Major, Hob. I:51 (1773) (approx. 21-29’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 52 in C Minor, Hob. I:52 (1773) (approx. 28-31’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 53 in D Major, Hob. I:53, "L'Imperiale" (The Imperial) (1779) (approx. 21-22’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 54 in G Major, Hob. I:54 (1774) (approx. 30-36’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 56 in C Major, Hob. I:56 (1774) (approx. 33-35’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 57 in D Major, Hob. I:57 (1774) (approx. 19-21’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 58 in F Major, Hob. I:58 (1768) (approx. 20-22’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 59 in A Major, Hob. I:59, "Feuersymphonie" (Fire) (1768) (approx. 17-21’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 60 in C Major, Hob. I:60, "Il Distratto" (Distraction) (1774) (approx. 25-30’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 61 in D Major, Hob. I:61 (1776) (approx. 25’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 62 in D Major, Hob. I:62 (1780) (approx. 20-25’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 63 in C Major, Hob. I:63, "La Roxelane" (1777) (approx. 18-22’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 65 in A Major, Hob. I:65 (1773) (approx. 22-24’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 66 in B-flat Major, Hob. I:66 (1779) (approx. 22-28’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 67 in F Major, Hob. I:67 (1779) (approx. 28-29’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 68 in B-flat Major, Hob. I:68 (1779) (approx. 29-30’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 69 in C Major, Hob. I:69, "Laudon" (1779) (approx. 20-25’) (list of recorded performances)
- Symphony No. 70 in D Major, Hob. I:70 (1779) (approx. 16-19’) (list of recorded performances)
Other works:
- Isang Yun, String Quartet No. 3 (1961) (approx. 15’)
- Hayden Wayne, String Quartet No. 10 (approx. 36.)
- Orlando Gibbons, Consort and Keyboard Music: Songs and Anthems
- Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy, Piano Sonatas (1775-1783) (approx. 120’)
- William Bland, Piano Sonata No. 17 in A Minor (2007) (approx. 25’)
Music: songs and other short pieces
- Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime” (lyrics)
- Bruce Springsteen, “Badlands” (lyrics)
