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... ... @@ -1,108 +1,0 @@ 1 -====Ethics must recognize that loves are not arbitrary psychological states, but rather are directed moral attitudes which can be right or wrong. Ethical projects fundamentally attempt to unify emotions with those responses required by reason.==== 2 -**Lewis 1** ~~British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist, employed at both Oxford and Cambridge~~ "the Abolition of Man" 1943. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/lewis/abolition2.htm 3 -This conception in all its forms, Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic, Christian, 4 -AND 5 -origin for the Tao is a question I am not here concerned with. 6 - 7 - 8 -====We cannot pursue liberatory model through a merely rational reflection of issues. Simply thinking without a reorientation of our emotions will terminally fail to inspire any true activity. ==== 9 -David Naugal. ~~chair and professor of philosophy at Dallas Baptist University. Has a Th.D. in systematic theology, and a Ph.D. in humanities with concentrations in philosophy and English literature. He is the author of Worldview: The History of a Concept~~. Education and the Abolition of Man. https://www.cslewis.com/blog/education-and-the-abolition-of-man/. June 17 2009. 10 -Nonetheless, philosophically justified virtues on their own are insufficient to make a person truly 11 -AND 12 -reason for the barbaric character and conduct of countless numbers of people today. 13 - 14 - 15 -====Additionally, only a focus on virtuous orientation accounts for the complexity of moral life. Ethical reasoning cannot be reduced to merely consequentialist calculations of solvency.==== 16 -**Adams.** Robert Adams: ~~Philosopher of metaphysics, ethics and religion, has taught at top schools like Yale, Rutgers, Chapel Hill~~ "Involuntary Sins." The Philosophical Review, 1985. 17 -The first thing to be said about this theory is that it is right in 18 -AND 19 -not by trying that we came to be for it or against it. 20 - 21 - 22 -====Thus, the standard is consistency with the Ordo Amoris, defined as correctly orienting our love and appreciation.==== 23 - 24 - 25 -====C) The grounding of proper loves is grounded in material reality, but fundamentally ‘inarticulable.’ The notion that we must justify basic insights like respect for human dignity is philosophically bankrupt.'==== 26 -**Ebels-Duggan 15**. June 24, 2015. More than Words Can Say: On Inarticulacy and Normative Commitment (by Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Philosopher). NP 9/12/16. 27 -Desires aren’t alone here. Think of what it is like to love someone. 28 -AND 29 -taken seriously. For that matter, neither should our relationships with ourselves. 30 - 31 - 32 -====Instrumentalization of ends is incoherent; prefer the AC framework over roles of the ballots that instrumentalize humanistic education for even important social roles; this robs humans of dignity and precludes capacity for use of intellection as a space for sanctuary and retreat, which renders the humanities competitive, destroying space for cooperative investigation, and limiting individual worth intellectual gifts. If the aim of education is to make a difference, if you cannot, it entails a lack of worth. I control uniqueness, and the conclusion independently follows from the Augustinian FW. ==== 33 -Zina Hitz ~~B.A., St. John’s College, Annapolis, 1995; M.Phil., Classics, Cambridge University, 1996; Ph.D. Philosophy, Princeton University, 2005; Assistant Professor, Auburn University, 2005-6; Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2006-2012; Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008-9; Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program, Princeton University, 2010-11; Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis, 2015-~~. 4/7/16. "Freedom and Intellectual Life." First Things. http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/04/freedom-and-intellectual-life MT 34 -What is the point of studying the humanities? The question reflects the current climate 35 -AND 36 -one such crucial form of asceticism. May it be preserved as such. 37 - 38 - 39 -====I defend, Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power==== 40 - 41 - 42 -===Contention 1 is Consumerism=== 43 - 44 - 45 -====Nuclear energy involves a deeply problematic consumeristic orientation.==== 46 - 47 -====First, to endorse nuclear energy is to endorse those orientations which make nuclear energy necessary. If the endorsement of those conditions is morally wrong, than using nuclear energy simply subsidizes morally wrong attitudes.==== 48 -Parkins, John R. and Haluza, Randolph ~~The authors are John R. Parkins, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta and Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Associate Professor of Sociology, The King’s University College, Edmonton, Alberta. ~~ -DeLay Social and Ethical Considerations of Nuclear Power Development. April 2011. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/103237/2/StaffPaper11-01.pdf 49 -Only slightly smaller in scope is the question of Why do we want/need 50 -AND 51 -whether nuclear energy production is an appropriate means to pursuit of that goal. 52 - 53 - 54 -====Second, the decision to develop nuclear energy is rooted indelibly in a consumeristic orientation that instrumentalizes nature and privileges the satisfaction of greed. ==== 55 -**Loy 13.** David Loy, (David Robert Loy is an American author and authorized teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Japanese Zen Buddhism.) 4-1-2013, "The Three Nuclear Poisons," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-loy/the-three-nuclear-poisons'b'2983534.html, accessed 9-2-2016 56 -Bracketed for grammar 57 -What causes dukkha? The four noble truths single out tanha 58 -AND 59 -restructure our societies according to the amount of renewable energy that’s safely available. 60 - 61 - 62 -====Finally, the instrumentalization of science is grounded in a fundamental violation of the Aristotelian precepts. The right way to respond to nature requires we conform ourselves to the world, not restructuring the world to suit us, which is the logic of consumerism. ==== 63 -**Lewis 2 ~~bracketed for gendered language~~.** C.S. Lewis ~~Professor at Oxford and Cambridge, author of numerous books on philosophy and Christianity~~. The Abolition of Man. 1943. 64 -My point may be clearer to some if it is put in a different form 65 -AND 66 -It it would not lose what Martin Buber calls the Thou-situation. 67 - 68 - 69 -===Contention 2 is Power=== 70 - 71 - 72 -====The aim of nuclear power production is a quest for power==== 73 -**Ellul 82,** Jacques. (Jacques Ellul was a French philosopher, professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist.) A THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON .1 r NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENTS: j ! The Limits of Science, Technology, and Power. 1982. 74 -All atomic research is research for power. It is no longer simply "nuclear 75 -AND 76 -nuclear energy, which has no other objective than the pursuit of power. 77 - 78 - 79 -====Nuclear power production is motivated by corporate greed==== 80 -**Jacobs 11.** Ron Jacobs, (Ron Jacobs is the author of Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by CounterPunch Books. He lives in Vermont. He can be reached at: ronj1955@gmail.com.) 3-12-2011, "When Greed Goes Radioactive," counterpunch.org, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/03/15/when-greed-goes-radioactive/, accessed 9-10-2016. NP 81 -Recently, Duke Energy and Progress Energy, two of the largest energy corporations in 82 -AND 83 -safe. It’s because the energy industry is driven by profits and greed. 84 - 85 - 86 -====Instrumentalizing nature means we cannot properly orient ourselves towards it – the search for power over nature only leads to power of some over others ==== 87 -**Lewis 3.** C.S. Lewis ~~Professor at Oxford and Cambridge, author of numerous books on philosophy and Christianity~~. The Abolition of Man. 1943. 88 -Bracketed for gendered language 89 -'Man's conquest of Nature' is an expression often used to 90 -AND 91 -is ~~they are~~ also the prisoner who follows the triumphal car. 92 - 93 - 94 -===Underview=== 95 - 96 - 97 -====The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate.==== 98 -**Coverstone 5** Alan Coverstone (masters in communication from Wake Forest, longtime debate coach) "Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact" Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference November 17^^th^^ 2005 JW 11/18/15 99 -An important concern emerges when Mitchell describes reflexive fiat as a contest strategy capable of 100 -AND 101 -that is a fundamental cause of voter and participatory abstention in America today. 102 - 103 - 104 -====Excessive focus on discourse and representations kills the liberal movements you seek to promote.==== 105 -**Chait 15** Jonathan Chait "How the language police are perverting liberalism." NY Magazine January 275h 2015 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html JW 106 -Or maybe not. The p.c. style of politics has one serious 107 -AND 108 -that have become forbidden, so many attitudes that will get you cast out - EntryDate
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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,108 @@ 1 +====Ethics must recognize that loves are not arbitrary psychological states, but rather are directed moral attitudes which can be right or wrong. Ethical projects fundamentally attempt to unify emotions with those responses required by reason.==== 2 +**Lewis 1** ~~British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist, employed at both Oxford and Cambridge~~ "the Abolition of Man" 1943. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/lewis/abolition2.htm 3 +This conception in all its forms, Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic, Christian, 4 +AND 5 +origin for the Tao is a question I am not here concerned with. 6 + 7 + 8 +====We cannot pursue liberatory model through a merely rational reflection of issues. Simply thinking without a reorientation of our emotions will terminally fail to inspire any true activity. ==== 9 +David Naugal. ~~chair and professor of philosophy at Dallas Baptist University. Has a Th.D. in systematic theology, and a Ph.D. in humanities with concentrations in philosophy and English literature. He is the author of Worldview: The History of a Concept~~. Education and the Abolition of Man. https://www.cslewis.com/blog/education-and-the-abolition-of-man/. June 17 2009. 10 +Nonetheless, philosophically justified virtues on their own are insufficient to make a person truly 11 +AND 12 +reason for the barbaric character and conduct of countless numbers of people today. 13 + 14 + 15 +====Additionally, only a focus on virtuous orientation accounts for the complexity of moral life. Ethical reasoning cannot be reduced to merely consequentialist calculations of solvency.==== 16 +**Adams.** Robert Adams: ~~Philosopher of metaphysics, ethics and religion, has taught at top schools like Yale, Rutgers, Chapel Hill~~ "Involuntary Sins." The Philosophical Review, 1985. 17 +The first thing to be said about this theory is that it is right in 18 +AND 19 +not by trying that we came to be for it or against it. 20 + 21 + 22 +====Thus, the standard is consistency with the Ordo Amoris, defined as correctly orienting our love and appreciation.==== 23 + 24 + 25 +====C) The grounding of proper loves is grounded in material reality, but fundamentally ‘inarticulable.’ The notion that we must justify basic insights like respect for human dignity is philosophically bankrupt.'==== 26 +**Ebels-Duggan 15**. June 24, 2015. More than Words Can Say: On Inarticulacy and Normative Commitment (by Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Philosopher). NP 9/12/16. 27 +Desires aren’t alone here. Think of what it is like to love someone. 28 +AND 29 +taken seriously. For that matter, neither should our relationships with ourselves. 30 + 31 + 32 +====Instrumentalization of ends is incoherent; prefer the AC framework over roles of the ballots that instrumentalize humanistic education for even important social roles; this robs humans of dignity and precludes capacity for use of intellection as a space for sanctuary and retreat, which renders the humanities competitive, destroying space for cooperative investigation, and limiting individual worth intellectual gifts. If the aim of education is to make a difference, if you cannot, it entails a lack of worth. I control uniqueness, and the conclusion independently follows from the Augustinian FW. ==== 33 +Zina Hitz ~~B.A., St. John’s College, Annapolis, 1995; M.Phil., Classics, Cambridge University, 1996; Ph.D. Philosophy, Princeton University, 2005; Assistant Professor, Auburn University, 2005-6; Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2006-2012; Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008-9; Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program, Princeton University, 2010-11; Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis, 2015-~~. 4/7/16. "Freedom and Intellectual Life." First Things. http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/04/freedom-and-intellectual-life MT 34 +What is the point of studying the humanities? The question reflects the current climate 35 +AND 36 +one such crucial form of asceticism. May it be preserved as such. 37 + 38 + 39 +====I defend, Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power==== 40 + 41 + 42 +===Contention 1 is Consumerism=== 43 + 44 + 45 +====Nuclear energy involves a deeply problematic consumeristic orientation.==== 46 + 47 +====First, to endorse nuclear energy is to endorse those orientations which make nuclear energy necessary. If the endorsement of those conditions is morally wrong, than using nuclear energy simply subsidizes morally wrong attitudes.==== 48 +Parkins, John R. and Haluza, Randolph ~~The authors are John R. Parkins, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta and Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Associate Professor of Sociology, The King’s University College, Edmonton, Alberta. ~~ -DeLay Social and Ethical Considerations of Nuclear Power Development. April 2011. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/103237/2/StaffPaper11-01.pdf 49 +Only slightly smaller in scope is the question of Why do we want/need 50 +AND 51 +whether nuclear energy production is an appropriate means to pursuit of that goal. 52 + 53 + 54 +====Second, the decision to develop nuclear energy is rooted indelibly in a consumeristic orientation that instrumentalizes nature and privileges the satisfaction of greed. ==== 55 +**Loy 13.** David Loy, (David Robert Loy is an American author and authorized teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Japanese Zen Buddhism.) 4-1-2013, "The Three Nuclear Poisons," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-loy/the-three-nuclear-poisons'b'2983534.html, accessed 9-2-2016 56 +Bracketed for grammar 57 +What causes dukkha? The four noble truths single out tanha 58 +AND 59 +restructure our societies according to the amount of renewable energy that’s safely available. 60 + 61 + 62 +====Finally, the instrumentalization of science is grounded in a fundamental violation of the Aristotelian precepts. The right way to respond to nature requires we conform ourselves to the world, not restructuring the world to suit us, which is the logic of consumerism. ==== 63 +**Lewis 2 ~~bracketed for gendered language~~.** C.S. Lewis ~~Professor at Oxford and Cambridge, author of numerous books on philosophy and Christianity~~. The Abolition of Man. 1943. 64 +My point may be clearer to some if it is put in a different form 65 +AND 66 +It it would not lose what Martin Buber calls the Thou-situation. 67 + 68 + 69 +===Contention 2 is Power=== 70 + 71 + 72 +====The aim of nuclear power production is a quest for power==== 73 +**Ellul 82,** Jacques. (Jacques Ellul was a French philosopher, professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist.) A THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON .1 r NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENTS: j ! The Limits of Science, Technology, and Power. 1982. 74 +All atomic research is research for power. It is no longer simply "nuclear 75 +AND 76 +nuclear energy, which has no other objective than the pursuit of power. 77 + 78 + 79 +====Nuclear power production is motivated by corporate greed==== 80 +**Jacobs 11.** Ron Jacobs, (Ron Jacobs is the author of Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by CounterPunch Books. He lives in Vermont. He can be reached at: ronj1955@gmail.com.) 3-12-2011, "When Greed Goes Radioactive," counterpunch.org, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/03/15/when-greed-goes-radioactive/, accessed 9-10-2016. NP 81 +Recently, Duke Energy and Progress Energy, two of the largest energy corporations in 82 +AND 83 +safe. It’s because the energy industry is driven by profits and greed. 84 + 85 + 86 +====Instrumentalizing nature means we cannot properly orient ourselves towards it – the search for power over nature only leads to power of some over others ==== 87 +**Lewis 3.** C.S. Lewis ~~Professor at Oxford and Cambridge, author of numerous books on philosophy and Christianity~~. The Abolition of Man. 1943. 88 +Bracketed for gendered language 89 +'Man's conquest of Nature' is an expression often used to 90 +AND 91 +is ~~they are~~ also the prisoner who follows the triumphal car. 92 + 93 + 94 +===Underview=== 95 + 96 + 97 +====The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate.==== 98 +**Coverstone 5** Alan Coverstone (masters in communication from Wake Forest, longtime debate coach) "Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact" Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference November 17^^th^^ 2005 JW 11/18/15 99 +An important concern emerges when Mitchell describes reflexive fiat as a contest strategy capable of 100 +AND 101 +that is a fundamental cause of voter and participatory abstention in America today. 102 + 103 + 104 +====Excessive focus on discourse and representations kills the liberal movements you seek to promote.==== 105 +**Chait 15** Jonathan Chait "How the language police are perverting liberalism." NY Magazine January 275h 2015 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html JW 106 +Or maybe not. The p.c. style of politics has one serious 107 +AND 108 +that have become forbidden, so many attitudes that will get you cast out - EntryDate
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