Activity

The idea that we have a moral duty to correspond to reality is, for Nietzsche andJames, as stultifYing as the idea that the whole duty of man is to please God.

We should help our students understand that social justice in America has owed much more to civil disobedience than to the use of the ballot. The students need to know that the deepest and most enduring injustices, like the unending humiliation of MricanAmericans and the miserable wages paid to uno…

[...] Cornel West can still identifY with a country that, by denying them decent schools and jobs, keeps so many black Americans humiliated and wretched.

There is no contradiction between such identification and shame at the greed, the intolerance and the indilference to suffering that is widesp…