Hegel

Infanticide: The New Abortion

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 05.06.2012

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Rabbi Adam Jacobs

The abortion question is unique in its ability to generate two utterly disparate conceptions of the same act. Is it a procedure or is it the wholesale megadeath of the other?

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The Slaughter Benches of History: Hegel and Radical Extremists

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 10.02.2011

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Franz-Stefan Gady

The crucial question is, of course, the interpretation of words. Political radicals do not need to pore over thousands of pages of philosophical text to come to a conclusion on any perceived political malaise.

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Disaster, Religion And Resilience In Haiti

blogs.ssrc.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most of us seem to know intuitively that resilience matters for post-disaster recovery, yet we also know that Haiti desperately needs the internationa...

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'Empathic Civilization' Excerpt: Homo-Empathicus, The Big Story That Historians Missed

The Huffington Post | Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The following is an excerpt from the HuffPost book club pick for February, Jeremy Rifkin's "The Empathic Civilization". Historians, by and large, wri...

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Obama's Just War and Deaf Ears

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sunil Adam

The "just war" theory essentially seeks to reconcile Jesus Christ's turn-the-other-cheek principle with the secular need of nations to wage war.

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