Word: amoralã
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...canard that lumping things in moral categories necessitates a conservative mindset. Some conservatives think this way, and so do some liberals, like Obama. The latter camp, on the other hand, is not “immoral,” but rather “amoral??—for better or worse, it simply doesn’t see the world through these goggles of good and evil. (As one online commenter on Brooks’ piece put it, the president’s logic is pure “Manichaean claptrap.”) This division...
What this means is that the months ahead call for us to tread very carefully. The distinction sketched out here between the “moral” view and the “amoral?? view is essentially the same as that drawn by another reviewer of Trilling’s book, who divides intellectual life between “fundamentalism” and “relativism.” In his speech, Obama warned that “if you truly believe that you are carrying out divine will, then there is no need for restraint?...
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