Word: judgmentalism
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...firm grounding in its culture and values is necessary. This argument, however, can be strung too far. Its one thing for someone to say that the Western tradition is responsible for the primacy today of principles like democracy, liberty, and freedom. Its another to make a normative judgment and say that these principles are somehow better than other cultures values...
...regret. "When I wake up, it's all I want to do," he says. "I feel like I'm inside De Leon's mind now. I know the tricks he's up to. And he's a genius. This is the most astounding book in Judaism." It is a judgment his own work makes even clearer...
...there is the response of those convinced they know God's Politics and are just as intent on seeing the guilt assigned. An ultraconservative Israeli rabbi declared that Katrina was retribution for U.S. support of the Israeli pullout from Gaza. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam called Katrina judgment for the Iraq war. The Christian Civic Group of Maine noted that the hurricane struck just as New Orleans was planning a huge gay-rights festival. A Kuwaiti official said, "The Terrorist Katrina is One of the Soldiers of Allah." There was, in other words, broad agreement in some...
What the Corporation needs now is not another member who has all the same interests and areas of expertise as the others. It needs a member who can bring wholly new perspectives to old problems, while simultaneously being ready to compromise, acquiesce, and respect the judgment of the majority. He or she must not allow the University’s governing body to become complacent...
...disagrees with someone of not being disagreeable. His first instinct is to clarify and understand the relevant facts in addressing an issue and then to think through the consequences from a variety of vantage points. Everyone whom I knew liked him, in part because they liked his clarity and judgment, in part because of his wit and humor, in part because he is one of those people who are genuinely likeable...