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<p style="margin: 0 15% 0 10%; font-weight: 700;">According to one meaning, a "canon" concerns a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which we judge something. Each person life-long forms her emerging canon, uniquely her own—her judgment. In forming it, she refers to other persons, cultural works, places and institutions, challenging problems, all sorts of matters that appear imbued with a charismatic, compelling meaning towards which a person reaches out with aspiration and hope, sometimes aversion and scorn. She drops, adds, and adjusts components in this canon, her points of reference in forming her judgment, turning them like a kaleidoscope throughout the course of life.</p> | <p style="margin: 0 15% 0 10%; font-weight: 700;">According to one meaning, a "canon" concerns a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which we judge something. Each person life-long forms her emerging canon, uniquely her own—her judgment. In forming it, she refers to other persons, cultural works, places and institutions, challenging problems, all sorts of matters that appear imbued with a charismatic, compelling meaning towards which a person reaches out with aspiration and hope, sometimes aversion and scorn. She drops, adds, and adjusts components in this canon, her points of reference in forming her judgment, turning them like a kaleidoscope throughout the course of life.</p> | ||