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...throughout his career has shown a willingness to cut things loose and make new starts. He was born in Toronto, where he was a folk singer in the early '60s before moving to the States. Although he came of age as a man and a musician during a chaotic era, he claims that times are tougher now: "It was a breeze in the '60s to grow up, compared to [the '90s]. The '60s were so open-ended. The dream was still there, the no-matter-what- you-could-make-it feeling. Kids today feel, 'No matter what, I'm probably...
...morality. maybe we aren't . justmachines for eating and reproducing; but where dowe go from there? Are we consigned to a sterilerelativism, or is some more normative ethicspossible? The title of the chapter "The MoralFirst Aid Manual" should give some indication:Dennett sees the process of moral reasoning asessentially chaotic and endless, and he valuesmoral rules simply as semi-arbitrary ways ofending a moral deliberation. He has no deepcommitment to any principle, but merely wants aresult, and it doesn't seem to much matter whatthat result is: "We cannot expect there to be asingle stable solution...but rather a variety...
Lewis will have to grapple with the desire of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to impose order upon a program whose funding is often chaotic, and the desire of PBH students to maintain some sort of autonomy...
...green high-schooler when, in 1945, I was sent to work at forced labor by the Germans. After the war, I ended up in a displaced-persons camp and managed to emigrate to England. There I studied art, and finally came to Canada. Powerful memories of those chaotic days are with me still. ELMAR DAMBERGS Rosseau, Canada...
...censorship in all its forms, including economic restrictions, and proclaims freedom of expression as an essential human right. But government resistance to the charter's principles is tenacious. There is the argument from patriotism: nations, especially when in crisis, cannot tolerate destructive criticism. There is the argument from culture: chaotic Western concepts of freedom cannot be applied to societies based on order and stability. There is the argument from economics: undue press attacks undermine development. There is the argument from idealism: an irresponsible press is apt to spread racial and ethnic hatred. All of these assertions contain elements of truth...