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AndrewGradman-SecondPaper 47 - 11 Apr 2008 - Main.JosephMacias
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READY TO BE GRADED | | | Eben understood, and so he forgave -- if you regard as "forgiveness," Jewish forgiveness, the forgiveness of Maimonides, forgiveness by stealth: He indicted that history to my face. And this is what his words meant to me: Of course, it’s easier for your Jewish-boy head to find descriptive truths rather than normative truths; your father taught you this in order to make you a good boy, as it made him a good surgeon. But fathers, though perhaps moral authorities, cannot be their sons' moral authorities. Moral authority comes from Rabbis, and those who study Torah -- which in a secular era, means, those whose purpose in studying truth, is to reveal NEW ETHICS, not ossify the old.
Christian or Jew: if secular, we must look to Socrates. We must look to him--forgiving his slight pedophilia--because he was the first, the Big Bang, of secular ethicists. And because we have too little time, and too few words remaining, in this century, and in last month of the semester, and in this paper, for me to tell you what sort of Republic I plan to derive for my life— while you wait to for my third paper -- the outline of a derivation of a personal "Republic," by which I mean of a legal voication -- I ask you, Which figure is Plato, and why? | |
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> | My guess: He's the depressed dude sitting at the foot of the bed. He is depressed because he knows Socrates points to the ceiling, and not a higher realm of existence. Perhaps he thinks he is foolish not to flee.
Anyways, I really enjoyed this paper. It is very honest. I recommend getting a new checklist from an experience that allows you to connect and relate to people from different walks of life. I'll comment more later... I want to think about this some more.
-- JosephMacias - 11 Apr 2008 |
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