Tag Archives: Vollmann

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

Cosmopolitanism’s Affirmation of Diversity

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

Seeing the Poor

In which journalist asks "Whose fault is it that you are Poor?"