Well Said | Andrew Blom

Hope, not Optimism

Dr. Cornel West, commencement address at Wesleyan University

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Who knows when the canker of evil may rot the good?

Helena Swanwick, suffragist and pacifist

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Tagged nonviolence, responsibility, violence

We are alive solely because of love

Mohondas Gandhi, “Soul-Force and Tapasya” (1917)

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Tagged love, nonviolence

Two-ness

W.E.B. DuBois, from “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” The Souls of Black Folk

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Tagged race

Philosophical reconstruction is a gamble

Robert Paul Wolff, Introduction to The Autonomy of Reason: A Commentary on Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

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Tagged history of philosophy, questioning

A philosophy handed down to us

Martin Heidegger, Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

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Tagged history of philosophy, questioning

La Petitesse et La Grandeur

Blaise Pascal, Pensees

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Where should I steer?

Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

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Tagged questioning, tolstoy

It goes without saying

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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Tagged gender

We mustn’t fear ridicule

Plato, Republic

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Tagged gender, plato, questioning

Wonder

Aristotle

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Tagged aristotle, questioning

A merely decent human being

Barley Scott Blair, character in John Le Carre’s The Russia House

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Tagged cosmopolitanism, responsibility

Just a Joke

Albert Camus, The Fall

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Tagged punishment, responsibility

Force into Right

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract

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Tagged authority

Peter and James

Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State

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Tagged authority

A Little Tree…

Martin Buber

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Tagged nonviolence, violence

Wondering

from Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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Tagged questioning

A Complaint of Peace

Erasmus, Complaint of Peace

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Tagged erasmus, peace