Word: moralisms
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...simply as a personal judgment, I donate my personal royalties to charity.”Similarly, the professor who introduces thousands of Harvard undergraduates to what is just finds it unjust to profit from textbook sales.Michael J. Sandel, a professor of government, notes on the syllabus for his class, Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” that all proceeds from textbook sales will go to charity.Sandel said that he compiled the mandatory “Justice: A Reader” to bring down the costs of the required course materials from $150 to $35, and to make...
...misshapen, Penelope looks lovable. This makes scenes of would-be suitors jumping out the window and Edward’s tales of a horrendous pig-woman with dripping fangs hilariously implausible. While Penelope is not high-film, it’s a charming modern-day fairy tale. The moral of the story? “It’s not the power of the curse, it’s the power you give the curse.” —Crimson staff writer Candace I. Munroe can be reached at cimunroe@fas.harvard.edu...
...Certainly it is understandable, if not forgivable, that college students seem particularly attracted to the promise of a better future, to “change” in general, to the unlimited capacity for man’s moral perfection. They read about such fancies in their social theory classes; political “science” teaches how to practice them. Administrators constantly advise their charges, in vapid aphorisms, to challenge authority, to question assumptions, to follow their dreams...
...independent streak goes way back, and it's never gone away," says Thomas Naylor, a former Duke economics professor who now leads the state's fledgling secession movement. In that statewide poll, three of every four Vermonters agreed that the United States had lost its moral authority. "That's really something," Naylor says...
...categories. Yet, there remains a strong interest in maintaining integrated schools, even if they require race-conscious admissions policies. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his 2007 concurrence in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, reiterated our nation’s “moral and ethical obligation to fulfill its historic commitment to creating an integrated society that ensures equal opportunity for all its children,” and argued that certain “narrowly-tailored” race-conscious policies may be constitutionally permissible. Yet the use of race, for even...