施特劳斯认为,政治哲学是哲学的组成部分或一个分支:“哲学”表示处理的方式,本根的和整全的;“政治的”既表示主题又表示功能。(By calling this pursuit political philosophy, we imply that it forms a part of a larger whole: of philosophy; or that political philosophy is a branch of philosophy. In the...
This chapter aims to examine this narrative practice, looking at the ways in which linguistic elements of otherness are imbricated into the texts, what function they have, and how they are manipulated but occasionally disrupt the narratives. Undergirding the analysis is again a tension between pow...
In fact, many aspects of morality are universal. But the stories and traditions that teach them are unique to each culture. Not only that, but also culture influences how people show these virtues.B. Do Americans have any morals? That"s a good question. Many people insist that ideas about...
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Many cultures of the world are trapped by this idea and then specially tempted with jealousy, greed, anger, apathy, violence, and instant gratification. When the gospel comes, it changes not only what you say you believe, but it must change the way you find your food. Arbitrary morality ...
Being a groupie is not nothing but laughs; it is, in some ways at least, a Life of Pain. One San Francisco groupie (she didn’t want her name used, so call her Victoria) serves as a good example of one thing that can happen when you go around balling a different cat every week-...
While I’m at it, I’m going to highly recommend another book, one I read many years after leaving law school – but still, many years ago. It’s a work from the 1990s that describes the alarming rise of Critical Legal Studies and the ways in which it has affected legal training and...
of the lottery winner: death. Choosing somebody who is not guilty at all like this and then sentence him or her to stoning to death is really incomprehensible to us, but to the villagers, it is quite normal and familiar. So here is some questions, Do the villagers have a morality value...
lot more gracious in his description of their parting of the ways than a lot of people would have been in the same situation. Gilman Street, the “cultural community center” of music located in Berkeley, CA is also mentioned and all in all, it’s a nice personal recap of days gone ...
“The whole ritual of the Seder is grounded in the notion that when we speak to each other in deep, holy ways, and we listen in deep holy ways, that’s what brings redemption,” she said. “It’s about uncovering the complexity of what we’re seeing. It’s about uncovering the stru...