My Spring 2009 Moral and Spiritual Dimensions of Education course Final paper submission (limited to 10 pages). I attempt to synthesis Appiah with Caputo, Vollman and Bauman. I’m thinking about cleaning this up, relating it the implications of the non-reductionist philosophy of Dooyeweerd derived from … Read More →
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Bauman on the Moral Encounter
Zygmunt Bauman’s collection of essays, Life in Fragments, is a description of the fragmentary nature of postmodern life. The fragmentation of the postmodern life manifests itself in two different ways of Being, each a encounter with the Other in which Ethics takes precedence over the … Read More →
Love is Recognizing Otherness
The Four authors encountered in class, Capoto, Vollman, Bauman and Appiah, all demonstrated an awareness that one has responsibility for the Other, and that this responsibility can be understood morally and spiritually. I read Caputo as advocating that religion, the spiritual dimension, is the realm … Read More →