A new profession to consider: Peacebuilder

[tbieter]

You write: ....."you academics...." and then say something negative, like "totalitarian." This causes a gap to arise in relationships and prevents arriving at some common ground - for the party being smeared might get defensive - might use the "Tu quoque" fallacy and say something like "What about you lawyers...!!" implying: Isn't this a case of the 'pot calling the kettle black'? This defense mechanism gets the topic off the first party, the one you insulted - or at least disrespected - but it contributes to a dispute, maintains the tension, does not create good.

Keep in mind the Ultimate Purpose of Ethics which is to contribute to. and enhance, a quality life for one and all, for everyone.

By smearing "academics" with a broad brush, one commits a disvalue, sheds no light on anything, and sets up a gap. Folks then are still fighting one another, rather than fighting for one another. To prusue goodness is what Ethics is all about. Let's keep that in mind. Let's "build not burn."

Do you approve or disapprove of the effort to prevent Ms. Rice from speaking?

[prof]

If a majority of all concerned parties (students, faculty, and administration) vote to have someone speak, then let them speak. Nobody HAS TO attend the talk; no one should be forced to do so.

To speak at a university is a prestigious honor. I would have voted not to award such an honor to one who - though I would not charge with being a War Criminal - is someone who was part of a cabal who deceived the American people so that our empire could get access to oil for the gain of the Carlyle Group, Inc. ...and a few other corporations. As a result of our intervention, many thousands died, and Iraq became a close ally of Iran.

She plays the piano well, though.



p..s. I disapprove of any effort to prevent anyone from speaking ...especially if their humor will make you smile!


Furthermore, Hex Hammer wrote - in response to a question you asked at another Forum - "An eye for an eye, makes the world blind!

I fully agree with him on that !!!!

You did not answer my question I asked you earlier. Do you want a more peaceful world? Would you like to minimize violence if you could?

[tbieter]

If a majority of all concerned parties (students, faculty, and administration) vote to have someone speak, then let them speak. Nobody HAS TO attend the talk; no one should be forced to do so.

To speak at a university is a prestigious honor. I would have voted not to award such an honor to one who - though I would not charge with being a War Criminal - is someone who was part of a cabal who deceived the American people so that our empire could get access to oil for the gain of the Carlyle Group, Inc. ...and a few other corporations. As a result of our intervention, many thousands died, and Iraq became a close ally of Iran.

She plays the piano well, though.



p..s. I disapprove of any effort to prevent anyone from speaking ...especially if their humor will make you smile!


Furthermore, Hex Hammer wrote - in response to a question you asked at another Forum - "An eye for an eye, makes the world blind!

I fully agree with him on that !!!

You did not answer my question I asked you earlier. Do you want a more peaceful world? Would you like to minimize violence if you could?

Yes and yes.

[thedoc]

She plays the piano well, though.

p..s. I disapprove of any effort to prevent anyone from speaking ...especially if their humor will make you smile!
Furthermore, Hex Hammer wrote - in response to a question you asked at another Forum - "An eye for an eye, makes the world blind!

I fully agree with him on that !!!

You did not answer my question I asked you earlier. Do you want a more peaceful world? Would you like to minimize violence if you could?

Yes and yes.

It should be noted that peace cannot be imposed from without, but must come from within when all parties want peace and are willing to give up old claims to achieve it.

[tbieter]

"Peace and justice" in this world do not constitute what revelation is about, though it is also indirectly at least about justice and peace , even in this world." p. 28

"The philosophical vocation does not mean that philosophers have all the answers, but it does mean that it is open to answers from whatever their source." p. 32
The Mind That Is CATHOLIC - Philosophical & Political Essays, James V. Schall

This thread by prof , a retired professor of philosophy, is fascinating.

It reflects his worldview, his limited worldview, when such is put in a broader context. (Is this act of contextualizing reasonable?)

A broader context is the Father Schall's thought contained in the second essay in The Mind That is CATHOLIC, namely, "Infinitized by the Spirit": Maritain and the Intellectual Vocation."

I'll write more on this issue later.

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-That-Catholi ... s+catholic

[tbieter]

She plays the piano well, though.

p..s. I disapprove of any effort to prevent anyone from speaking ...especially if their humor will make you smile!
Furthermore, Hex Hammer wrote - in response to a question you asked at another Forum - "An eye for an eye, makes the world blind!

I fully agree with him on that !!!

You did not answer my question I asked you earlier. Do you want a more peaceful world? Would you like to minimize violence if you could?

Yes and yes.

It should be noted that peace cannot be imposed from without, but must come from within when all parties want peace and are willing to give up old claims to achieve it.

Well said. But, prof urges you to make money building peace as a Peacebuilder.

"We recognize that ultimately all order and disorder in the public realm, and probably in our inner souls, stem from order or disorder in the souls and minds of thinkers whose ideas have fashioned the culture in which we live." The Mind That Is CATHOLIC, James V. Schall, p. 17,