Word: detachmentã
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...argument Ignatieff makes about the dangers of academic judgment and the final reasons he provides for his own mistake is part of what has made his apology controversial. Ignatieff criticized academics for being too theoretical and too detached. But his misjudgment on Iraq was fueled by a lack of detachment??valuing emotion before ideas. “I just think he misdiagnosed the source of his error,” Walt said. “You start to think the emotions themselves are reasons, and they’re not reasons,” Ignatieff said...
...some comfort in his praise of science, an area constantly making new breakthroughs and rewriting human ignorance, but “Black Mass” ultimately fails to answer how realism will empower us. Gray’s advice to take up “stoical determination and intellectual detachment?? is vague and leaves us wondering how it would be better if President Bush were a well-oiled automaton instead of an ardent neo-conservative utopian. Gray offers a convincing and incisive critique of utopian thought, but his solution is hardly any better...
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