But before you do, read JR’s review of Eve’s Revenge first. Here is a tasting:
Eve’s Revenge argues that our culture teaches women to hate their bodies, to view them as enemies on the path to self-fulfillment. She explores the roots of this worldview, the disembodied reality it creates, and the insufficient response (thus far) of [...]
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I want to share a discussion sheet I went through with my students the other day. I wanted them to begin thinking about the role of language in their lives and more importantly, its role and capabilities in understanding reality. I decided to approach language by means of an analog with images. My questions are [...]
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Go and read JR’s second post concerning PETA’s latest ad campaign. PETA’s Sexy Beasts Pt 2 (of 4): Like a Virgin…
Here is a taste:
Because we do not have access to any sort of transcendent religious reality, these ads are free to reinterpret ‘spiritual’ to mean whatever they want, using whatever religious symbols they choose. Whether [...]
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“Nietzsche is not merely repeating what Kant had said a century earlier. Kant argued that the self constructs knowledge by means of transcendental categories derived from the mind, which he assumed to be structurally the same in all persons.persons. He believed that this sameness of structure — this shared human nature — provides the foundation [...]
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Stanley J. Grenz
“[We often] overlook the fact that no two things or occurrences are exactly the same. Consequently, rather than mediating genuine knowledge, our conceptualizing robs reality of its multiplicity and destroys the original richness and vitality of human experience.”[1]
Notes:
A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1657-59 [↩]Scridb filter
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