Contamination Can Be Significant

All around the world there are many cultures and traditions. Cultures are unique and have been around of thousands of years. Some may think it is vital to preserve their culture and traditions. In some places around the world they are not hip to the contemporary issues, and other ways to have…

“The self without sympathetic attachments is either a fiction or a lunatic.” — Adam Phillips

Can the value of human kindness return as a vital thread in society’s moral fiber? This might be one of the most potent questions of our time…

Diversity and Freedom

In “The Case for Contamination”, Kwame Appiah, talks about the ways in which cultural transformation (or more appropriately, the ways in which assimilation to the Western culture) is influenced and occurs in the world. As a Cosmopolitan, he comes from the perspective in which “all humans…

Kindness in Today’s day and age

Being a kind person nowadays considered many things. What does it mean to be kind? Why is it important to be kind? In the reading Against Kindness, Kindness is the saboteur of the successful life. Kidness has nothing to do with nothing sexual, violence, nor money(5)…

Change is Good

Cultures are continually evolving. Some changes come at a slow rate and can take centuries and multiple generations, while some changes can occur almost overnight. Change, while sometimes can be, is not always bad. Kwame Anthony Appiah wrote about change in an article in the New York Times titled “The Case for…

THE BLACK AND WHITENESS OF IT ALL

In “Precarious Life,” Judith Butler talks about the rise of anti-intellectualism, which I understand as meaning: the growing acceptance of censorship. She demonstrates this phenomenon by discussing the implications of widespread media censorship, which occurred during…

CR 11 Prompt- Precarious Life

Use the following points to help you “pull the thread” of Butler’s ideas–please make sure that you find a…

TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION

In the essay on “Kindness” by Phillips and Taylor, the emphasis on vulnerability hits home with me. Many of us have been conditioned to see vulnerability as a weakness, which accomplishes exactly two things: we stop being human and we become split off from…

Prompt for CR 12 Cosmopolitanism= Citizen of the World!

We All Count!

The world has not been the same since September 11, 2001. The actions taken that day by a few has changed not only American, but also global lives. The War on Terrorism has affected global politics and economics. Judith Baker writes about the “unprecedented suspension of civil liberties” (3) in her book…