Word: haag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former director, John Kerry, participated in a debate here on the moral and political aspects of amnesty with Ernest van den Haag, professor of Social Philosophy at New York University and a writer for the National Review...
...Haag maintained that "the purpose of law is to supercede the individual conscience." Draft evaders, he said, must accept responsibility for their actions which conflict with their legal obligations...
...Haag contended that a war, whether just or unjust, represents a decision made by the government; he said that those who reject that decision cannot expect to be welcomed back as soon as the war has ended. "People who violate the law must not profit from that violation," he said...
...means all the witnesses agreed. The fact that it was a woman rather than a man doing the exploiting cut no ice with Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. "Once you regard a person as merely a means to your plea sure," he declared during his four hours of testimony, "then you will be ready to commit any act for your pleasure or displeasure-putting another person in a concentration camp or exploiting his teeth and hair...
...West," according to Mexican Poet-Diplomat Octavio Paz. In Western pornography, "death spurs pleasures and rules over life. From Sade to the Story of O, eroticism is a funeral chant or a sinister pantomime." Reading about sadism can have a cumulative effect, according to Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. Der Stunner, a Hitlerite journal that mixed anti-Semitism and sex, contributed to the general atmosphere that made it possible to slaughter Jews, Van den Haag believes. Similarly, he says, today's sadistic pornography contributes to a general atmosphere in which sadism becomes generally permissible...