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...strongest emotional appeal of the movement opposing a war against Saddam Hussein is the idea that peace should always be given the moral benefit of the doubt over war. War is always "failure," as French President Jacques Chirac has put it. Most religious leaders--from the Pope on down--have argued that peace is almost always morally preferable to war, and that this war--whatever its strategic or political justification--would be simply unjust. Indeed, many of these authorities have gone right up to the edge of saying that peace under any circumstance deserves not only a chance...
...correct moral decision is not always the correct aesthetic decision. And in Libeskind’s blueprints for new buildings above the place of slaughter, the second has been mistaken for the first. Libeskind has said the site was “a place of mourning, a place of sadness, where so many people were murdered and died.” He is exactly right. He has also said that he wanted his design for the WTC site to be “something that is outward, forward-looking, optimistic, exciting.” He is exactly wrong...
With his favorite Schubert sonata and his wife’s story of their first blind date, family, friends and former students remembered John Rawls, the Conant professor emeritus and one of the most notable political and moral philosophers of the 20th century, at a memorial service in Sanders Theater yesterday...
Cohen said Rawls’pleasant manner around those who knew him seemed rooted in his belief that moral and political philosophy should have practical value in everyday life...
This semester, Bolger is teaching for Government 1300, “The Politics of Congress,” Social Analysis 58, “Representation, Equality and Democracy” and Moral Reasoning 28, “Ethics and International Relations...