Word: selfhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more troubling aspect of "As an X, I feel Y" comments is that they reveal a narrow understanding of selfhood. Surely, our academic viewpoints are informed by a variety of sources, including familial and cultural history, encounters with racism or sexism, or tutelage of particular professors. But to limit our analytic interpretations to those that are derived from narrow aspects of our selves poses two dangers. First, it causes us to stop short of our full academic potential. More importantly, it reinforces stereotypes which dictate that members of particular groups are characterized by uniformity of experience and viewpoint...
...grandaddy of all the FPs. FOP prepares you for a lifelong career as a camp counselor or a motivational speaker. The decision-making skills you learn on FOP enable you to discuss issues of "trust" and "selfhood" endlessly with a straight face. Unfortunately, FOP also leaves participants with an addiction to synthetic pile and to Gore-Tex outerwear...
...Testament scholars from this school point out that the Gospel writers made a crucial distinction between flesh and spirit. "They were talking not about the resurrection of the flesh but about the resurrection of Christ's selfhood, his essence," says Jackson Carroll, a professor of religion and society at Duke Divinity School. "The authors of the New Testament had experiences with an extraordinary person and extraordinary events, and they were trying to find ways to talk about all that. They weren't writing scientific history; they were writing faith history...
...think there are certain enduring ethical standards, enduring values that don't change with the times. My definition of the ethical public servant is one who acts in the public interest, who is truthful, credible, honest, and who is able to turn from greed and selfhood to think in terms of others...