Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't die, of course. The moral ofthe story, as we learn in the play's clumsyclosing monologue, is that adulthood is aboutchoice. This idea about the dangers of growing upwas revelatory when we, growing up, actually beganto discover it for ourselves: it was notrevelatory when we figured out that this was thesubject of The Jerusalem Disease, and itbecomes boring by the time Shrier actually forceshis narrator to explain it. The unsubtlety of theplot is compounded by the clumsiness of thedirect-address monologue through which the moralis conveyed: the play begins and ends with thecentral character, Noah Feldshriber--played byJuri...
...When Wei-Ming looks at his large Moral Reasoning audience, he does not see a beast. Rather, a gigantic learning opportunity. His philosophy seems to suggest that some disciplines don't lend themselves to performance...
...professors agree. The thought of prepping for a lecture like a Broadway show horrifies Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy Tu Wei-Ming, who teaches Moral Reasoning 40, "Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community." Wei-Ming says his opposing outlook on the practice of speaking to a large crowd comes from his Chinese upbringing. "In America, a lecture or speech often begins with a joke," he says. "In Asia, normally, if there is a big audience, you begin with an apology. Self-praise is in poor form...
Next comes Tobin's invocation of "moral reversal." I suppose Tobin is arguing that religion should play no role in morality for those who are religious (still a majority of the population, especially in middle America). The implications of such an argument are so absurd they need not be addressed...
...achieve this however, all embrace of any tradition of faith was utterly abandoned. Today, Harvard's only official religion is one of tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism. The "real stuff," that is, the original truths that opened the university to all and gave these three words moral force, are left to the students to seek, to find and to cherish...