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Evolutionary Inclusion in the Philosophy of Jane Addams:
A Review Essay of Fischer’s Evolutionary Theorizing, with a Reply by Fischer
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In this review essay, Jennifer Kiefer Fenton examines Marilyn Fischer’s first of a planned 3-volume project on the philosophy of Jane Addams. Fischer’s volume on Jane Addams’s Evoutionary Theorizing brings close attention to source materials that Addams used for her classic work, Democracy and Social Ethics. As a result, Fischer is able to demonstrate that Addams was deeply engaged with social and ethical concepts that were undergoing transformation in the wake of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Fenton’s review of Fischer’s volume argues that readers will find new groundworks for understanding why Addams resisted individualistic morality and preferred to use terms like association, cooperation, perplexity, propinquity, motives, sympathy, social ethics, and of course, democracy. In reply to Fenton’s review, Fischer affirms key findings and describes historical reasons why a more coherent recapitulation of Addams’s evolutionary method of ethical deliberation would be difficult to achieve.
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What Would Make For A Better World?:
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Author of Pragmatic Nonviolence: Working toward a Better World, Meets Critics
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Andrew Fitz-Gibbon in Pragmatic Nonviolence: Working Toward a Better World argues that a principled form of pragmatism—pragmatism shaped by the theory of nonviolence—is the best hope for our world. He defines nonviolence as “a practice that, whenever possible seeks the well-being of the Other, by refusing to use violence to solve problems, and by having an intentional commitment to lovingkindness.” In the first part of the book, Fitz-Gibbon asks what a better world would look like. In the second part, he covers what is the greatest obstacle to that better world: violence. In the third part, he examines philosophical theories of nonviolence. The fourth part examines pragmatism as a philosophy of “what works” (William James) through the lens of the principle of maximizing well-being through nonviolent practice. In response to Fitz-Gibbon’s work, critic Danielle Poe asks what a nonviolence response looks like to the Other whom we have wronged and wonders how nonviolence responds to systemic violence. Sanjay Lal asks whether pragmatism and nonviolence can be synthesized given the popular conception that the pragmatic possible seems at odds with the ideal of absolute nonviolence. William C. Gay affirms much of the text and suggests its uses in teaching. Mechthild Nagel wonders if Fitz-Gibbon’s pragmatic nonviolence is too anthropocentric and questions the absence of a consideration of systemic violence in the criminal justice system. Fitz-Gibbon then responds to the critics.
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Amir Jaima
The Untold Story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Cyborg:
On the Post/Super/In-Human Conditions of Black (Anti)Heroism
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Heroism presumes “humanity.” Black candidates for heroism in the United States, however, must often overcompensate for the presumed sub-humanity imposed upon them by the American popular imaginary. By way of an illustration, consider the instructive case of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who, arguably, attains the status of (Black) American Hero in spite of his Blackness. Through a unique account of the life of Dr. King, I will argue that King attains the requisite overcompensation necessary for (Black) American heroism by becoming what João Costa Vargas and Joy James call a Baldwinian Cyborg, a “super human with unnatural capacities to suffer and love.” I will present, here, a literary narrative that weaves speculative fiction into the interstices of the historical record in order to contend that the Black Cyborg is necessary in a world where white Americans are “human” but Black citizens remain aspirations.
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Violence and Nonviolence in the Middle East
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King’s Radicalism and Its Detractors
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Truth, God, the One Great Thing:
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Look into Your Hand, My Child!
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Cooperative Global Politics
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Gandhi’s Civil Disobedience
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The Green Politics of Peace:
The Way to Survival is a Utopian Way
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Nonviolence as New Science
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Towards Improving the Educational Effectiveness of the United Nations Campaigns for Peace and Disarmament:
Invited Proposal to the General Assembly of the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament
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Enjoying Peace
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Anarchy and Abortion (pt 2)
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Constructive Nonviolence
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Ham Sok Hon, Ha Poong Kim
The Spirit of the Christian
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The Roots of Violence in the Human Heart
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Ham Sok Hon, A Biographical Sketch
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The Role of Violence and Nonviolence in the Realization of Socialism
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