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...went to John Stuart Mill, President Eliot and writers of the 19th century precisely to avoid bringing politics into the debate...
...concerned? Is there an evolutionary middle ground? Is it not possible, for example, to be against discrimination toward homosexuals yet not in favor of gay marriage? Compromises are already taking shape. Some cities, including New York, offer bereavement leave and health insurance to the domestic partners of city employees. Stuart Kelman, a Conservative rabbi in Berkeley, California, has proposed an alternative to traditional religious marriage: a ceremony for what he calls a "covenant of love" for couples wishing to sanctify lifelong monogamous relationships. Ancient Roman law recognized three categories of marriage--a legally sanctioned union, marriage by purchase and marriage...
Rudenstine's critics, such as Kenan Professor of Government Mansfield, recognize the value of diversity in intellectual discourse. Rudenstine's report cites both John Milton and John Stuart Mill, who argued for diversity of opinion as a necessity in the pursuit of truth...
Somewhere in the course of Rudenstine's report (about p. 45) the idea of diversity as inherited from the past is suddenly transformed into the new, multicultural idea of representation. The liberal heroes he quotes in support of diversity--John Milton and John Stuart Mill--had no thought that diversity might require proportional representation of ethnic groups. Certainly not! For them true diversity was above all diversity of opinion, and that was the product of a few people who stand on their own feet, who do not bow to public opinion, or look to role models, or need the support...
...truth is just the opposite. It is easy to indulge "other significant values" than excellence and to pretend that nothing has happened and that our patron saint John Stuart Mill would smile on us. What is hard is to sustain excellence against the temptation of other values that appear to be more significant...