Critical Reflection

In Hannah Arendt’s Responsibility and Judgement, the author discusses the moral and political standards of collective guilt, collective responsibility, and the implications of thinking. First, she demonstrates that collective guilt builds on the faults of our fathers and our responsibility in…

Critical Reflection Prompt/Musing: Against Kindness and Modern Kindness due 10/21

“Self-transcendence…

Critical Reflection Prompt: Outcasts United due Nov. 4

Critical Reflection Prompt: The Moral Mind & the Brain is an Argument

Please bring in elements from both chapters in your response (both are important and I want you to read both, not just focus on the brain and behavior of the sociopath. I know this is intriguing but as I have…

Critical Reflection Prompt- Precarious Life- due 10/28.

Kindness is everything

I do think we can all be kind. However, its not the matter on if we can do it, it is more of if we want to do it. Many people find the pleasure in helping someone out or doing something out of the goodness of their heart. Kindness has been a backbone of our society from day 1. Kindness is…

Love thy neighbor

Benjamin Disraeli once said, “Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.”

Shadows Are Casted By Lights

G. W. Brownridge III

It often surprises me how little the human species has changed over the eons. In primitive times we use to fight over territory with sharpened stick and throwing rocks. To this day we now fight over resources exclusively with rocks…

Molding The Formless.

G.W. Brownridge III

“Collective Responsibility” by Hannah Arendt. If this passage had any more confusing twists and turns I would mistake it for a bloody maze.

So to begin, Arendt addresses the concept of collective guilt and how it can…