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When we talk about justice today, we almost always find ourselves talking about rights we believe are entrenched in nature and have been enshrined in our founding documents. This language reflects a liberal conception of human action and interaction, casting us as rational agents who reach agreements with one another through calculation and
... See moreToday you will hear many presumably learned people say that there is
no such thing as human nature, or that human beings do not have a nature. Now, there is a long historical development back of this view, which we cannot deal with here, and it is not entirely without an important point. But that point is mismade in the statement that human beings
readwise.io • Willard | Renovation of Heart
The Destructive Impact of Cultural Heideggerianism – David P. Goldman
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Venus in Two Acts - Saidiya Hartman
LinkA liberalism that focuses solely on the individual and on humanity as a whole may fail to see how certain identity groups are disadvantaged. Greater attention to this aspect of identity is warranted, though not to the exclusion of all other concerns.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
My point is that one's social and historical
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
ideas argue that racist policies are the cause