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Why moral education should involve moral philosophy 1
- Education
- August 2, 2016
Ethics are increasingly a part of the school curriculum, and practical introductory classes in applied ethics are part of the training that nurses, scientists and soldiers undergo. Ethical education is ubiquitous, even though it may not always involve complicated theoretical debates – but should it include a dose of philosophy? There are powerful reasons for
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Are we witnessing the birth of a Revolution?0
- History
- August 2, 2016
The Modern Era was born with a revolution. So begins Jacques Barzun’s seminal history, From Dawn to Decadence. Martin Luther might not have intended to ignite a revolution when he pounded his 95 theses into the door of Wittenberg’s All Saints’ Church on Oct. 31, 1517. (This practice was not uncommon in Luther’s day; it was a
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Can’t stand Hillary or Trump? Here’s what you must do.1
- Politics
- August 2, 2016
I can’t recall an election in which the two leading candidates were more reviled in both breadth and depth. The rejoinder I keep hearing is that 2016 is the Lesser of Two Evils Election. The data bears this out. A poll conducted in May by the Washington Post found that 57 percent of people
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Why cooking from scratch is still important 1
- Culture
- August 2, 2016
When I was in 6th grade, my mother bravely invited 10 of my friends to a local church kitchen and taught them how to make apple pie. If such a scenario leaves you envisioning a scene of mass destruction, you’d be close. After all, our casualties that day only included one upset bowl of cinnamon
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Are We Living in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’?0
- Culture
- August 2, 2016
It’s almost a century since T. S. Eliot shocked the world with the avant garde innovation of “The Waste Land,” the fragmentary form of which reflected the fragmented brokenness of the modern world that it satirized. Like a modern-day inquisitor, Eliot questioned the value of modernity: “What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
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The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?0
- Culture
- August 1, 2016
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized. The above is an excerpt from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s
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