Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other students do not see the merits to this ideal. One Science Center e-mail correspondent has a personal story to tell. "I e-mailed him out of the blue and told him he could have sex with me if he wrote back," recounts one anonymous undergraduate. Now she says they have been together for over a week, and she has already fulfilled her promise...
...other bad European idea that liberals now accept uncritically is idealism, which came to us from Kant. Idealism refuses to accept the existence of non-ideal facts about human behavior, like prejudice and sexual aggression. According to this system of belief, only rational beings are morally worthy and deserving of respect. An idealistic enterprise like political correctness therefore refuses to compromise with reality or to stop proselytizing until every trace of irrational prejudice--esp. racial, sexual, and homophobic--is eradicated. Idealism leads to the desire to make real people into ideal people, no matter what the costs...
Paglia and Mansfield teach us that the purpose of justice should not be, as some would have it, to make the world ideal. Given human nature and the fact that people don't agree on what the ideal society should look like, making the world ideal would entail an unacceptable amount of coercion. It's true that liberty has its own costs and hazards, including risk, conflict, hostility, insecurity--even rape. But like the very first liberals, paglia and Mansfield both think the price of freedom is worth paying...
Perhaps his warning has already been heeded. "Pre-registration would be ideal for everyone involved--professors, graduate students and undergraduates," says Graduate Student Council President Carlos A. Lopez...
...those students who like the moreintimate and personal teaching methods, Justice,or any other class that nearly reaches quadrupledigits of students, may not be the ideal course...