Word: moralizations
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...violent institution. It deserves to be met with a violent response.” The 21-year-old Ontario native—a self-billed philosophical anarchist with “extreme, radical, and violent” ideas—admits that violence might someday soon be the only moral alternative when protesting power. “I have no moral issue breaking laws because I have no moral compulsion to obey laws that I, or my community, had no role in creating,” she says. “I can do what I can...I have neither...
...moral argument against non-prescription oral contraceptives is that sex, and all that jazz, should be a big deal: If women are allowed to purchase the pill willy-nilly then they will all go around have lots of sex and being generally licentious. Again, this argument puts the cart before the horse, assuming doctors’ appointments uphold moral attitudes. Most individuals make decisions about sex based on their own personal moral and social circumstances, not on the availability of pills and condoms—after all, anyone can pick up the latter freely at CVS. And even...
...Science B-57, “Dinosaurs And Their Relatives”—while others border on the obscure—for instance, Literature and Arts B-48, “Chinese Imaginary Space.” The welcome exceptions to this rule—such as Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—have unsurprisingly swelled in class size.We cannot see any reason why General Education will not go the same way, particularly if the Faculty debates of the past few months are any indication. For instance, we were initially enthusiastic about...
...always remember the lectures of Associate Professor of Government Glyn “This is Moral Reasoning 50: The Public and the Private in Politics, Morality, and Law” Morgan, who one day in lecture randomly decried how busy everyone at Harvard “had” to be. He recounted a story of how impossible it was to arrange to have coffee with another professor, noting that it was “unfashionable” to admit to being free tomorrow afternoon. Instead, the other professor was apt to pull out the BlackBerry and suggest a date...
...biggest hurdles the institute faces is a lack of money, as many politicians oppose the use of public funds for stem cell research because of moral objections...