Tag: ethics
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Face to Face in Quebec
My latest in the Christian Courier, found here. _________________ Quebec has been in the news again over recent weeks. And again it is in relation to questions of religious tolerance and religious accommodation. In this latest round of political and cultural controversy we are in the news because the government of Quebec has passed legislation…
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supreme court confusion
But you cannot have it both ways. You cannot build the whole infrastructure of an argument on the right of individual self-definition, self-expression, and atomistic autonomy in the face of suffering, and then suddenly slip into a communal ethics that understands human persons in terms of our inevitable and necessary interdependence and mutuality.
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this table – the shape of community
We cannot sit at this table and at the same time live in ways that represent a refusal or betrayal of this table.
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the caress, respecting difference
From the 6th chapter of my book Becoming Two in Love: Kierkegaard, Irigaray, and the ethics of sexual difference, a reflection on the caress as this may embody an ethical intersubjectivity between man and woman. Expressed in somewhat poetic form: We are by no means strangers. Years of a shared life form a thick and…
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my book is published #longroad
It has been a while in coming, but my book has been published – this is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation. Glad to see this day! Click the image for a link to its page on Amazon.
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infanticide versus abortion #PriceOfConsistency
I was reading in the health section of London’s Daily Telegraph, and noticed something interesting. Among the top 5 “most viewed for today,” was an article from February 2012. The other 4 articles were all from March of 2013. This happens from time to time when some article draws the particular interest or ire of readers…
encrusted words 