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...breed an army of investment bankers unencumbered by a clear set of values and a basic understanding of the society in which they live is, after all, much more politically correct. With the passage of our new undergraduate curriculum, the Faculty have finally woken up to what any good relativist could have told you decades ago: Harvard’s curriculum is finally as much of an incoherent, poorly composed morass as its student body...
...year career as a search to find out "what, if anything, philosophy was good for." A lover of politics and literature, Rorty rejected such traditional analytic questions as, What is the meaning of life? Instead he caused a stir--and irked critics, who called him a "moral relativist"--with books like Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, which advocated pragmatism, the view that real-life interactions and consequences define truth and meaning. He was 75 and had pancreatic cancer...
...five pound maul - all in the name of good will toward man. Our patients generally get better and the uniquely orthopedic interaction of science and humanity makes for a great richness of experience in our everyday lives. Ask any doc - ortho is fun. And while not much of a relativist, I can imagine that docs in other specialties love their fields as well - though maybe not all ("ah, the romance of ... nephrology...
...sacred bonds and most worthy affections of the human being, with the result that people are debilitated and our reciprocal relations rendered precarious and unstable." Such workaday pronouncements in Rome may not draw much attention. But this week Benedict visits Spain, the European democracy that arguably best represents the relativist tyranny he so dreads. Having accepted an invitation to attend the church's World Meeting of Families in Valencia on July 8-9, Benedict will arrive in a once devoutly Catholic nation that both admirers and critics around the globe now refer to as "Zapatero's Spain." Since his March...
...find the current situation in Iran to be so truly troubling. President Ahmadinejad in particular seems to have been reading his history books; the vocabulary of legitimacy and sovereign rights figure prominently in his pronouncements defending Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. These sort of relativist arguments are plausible on one level—we have nuclear weapons after all—but fall apart when one notes the extreme paranoia and totalitarianism prevalent in the Iranian regime...