Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...additional thoughts on this problem, for I think a more extended comment is required. I find it baffling why the politically extremist elements among Negro students-and some Negro faculty as well-in white colleges do not have the character and courage to follow to its limits the logic of their extremist black racist ideology. Those Negro students (and faculty) who require an obsessive interplay with their blackness have, if they are persons of integrity and solid human stuff. only one alternative-namely, to leave white colleges (where nearly 70 per cent of Negroes in colleges are being educated...
...indeed impossible for anyone to spend twenty-four consecutive hours in this country without recognizing the compelling logic and irresistible force of what Sartre has called 'an anti-racist racism." It is the necessary moment of negativity, the "only route which can lead to the abolition of racism." A necessary moment, because, although all the oppressed classes as a whole are victims of a predatory society, nonetheless "the black man is a victim of oppression inasmuch as he is black, in his role as a colonized or as a deported African. And since he is oppressed in his race...
...different ending, Torvald might say, "O.K., Nora. I agree it's been a bad marriage. I'm leaving, too. Let the children fend for themselves." Viewed in that light, the cost Nora is inflicting on others by her abandonment is clearer. She is being selfishly irresponsible. The logic of her act is that one no longer honors a commitment as soon as it displeases...
...narrow legal sense it is very difficult to fault Taylor's logic and his matching of painful precedent and present tragedy. Perhaps the real question is whether Yamashita, whose case was quite different from the purposeful genocide carried out by Nazi war criminals, should have been found guilty and hanged. Only if the principle applied to him in 1945 can be demonstrated to have been wrong is it possible to argue effectively that it would be wrong to apply it now. It is a dilemma that, however argued, cannot be resolved in a fashion that is very comforting...
...laughing at me if you are not laughing at me. Even more self-damaging, perhaps, is man's fear of enjoying what he has, either because he may lose it or because he feels that he does not deserve it. To show how illogical a man's logic can be, Laing has drawn diagrams...