H114 Meeting 6: Contradictions of the Enlightenment
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This document discusses contradictions of the Enlightenment era through examining excerpts from various texts. It begins by looking at Oliver Goldsmith's work on sentimentality and gender relations. It then analyzes Cesare Beccaria's essay on crimes and punishments, specifically criticizing the use of torture during criminal trials. Beccaria argues that torture is a cruelty, as an innocent person could confess or be condemned through pain. The document examines whether torture achieves the political goals of punishment and deterrence, or just hides crimes and risks punishing the innocent. It questions using torture to "purge infamy", saying pain cannot impact moral opinion.
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mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany, and though she spoke very little of her life
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Theodore
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DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM ................................................................................... 1
AN INTERVIEW WITH AIMÉ CÉSAIRE ....................................................................... 25
Discourse on Colonialism
A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent
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Chapter 11
The Frivolity of Evil
Theodore Dalrymple
When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt to
society. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping. You
cannot pay a debt by having caused even greater expense, nor can you pay in advance for
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form. Perhaps for that reason, like the prisoner on his release, I feel I have paid my debt to
society. Certainly, the work has taken a toll on me, and it is time to do something else.
Someone else can do battle with the metastasizing social pathology of Great Britain, while
I lead a life aesthetically more pleasing to me.
My work has caused me to become perhaps unhealthily preoccupied with the problem
of evil. Why do people commit evil? What conditions allow it to flourish? How is it best pre-
vented and, when necessary, suppressed? Each time I listen to a patient recounting the
cruelty to which he or she has been subjected, or has committed (and I have listened to
several such patients every day for 14 years), these questions revolve endlessly in my mind.
No doubt my previous experiences fostered my preoccupation with this problem. My
mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany, and though she spoke very little of her life be-
fore she came to Britain, the mere fact that there was much of which she did not speak
gave evil a ghostly presence in our household.
From City Journal, Autumn 2004 by Theodore Dalrymple. Copyright © 2004 by The Manhattan Institute. Reprinted
by permission.
Copyright 2013 Kendall Hunt Publishing
156 AN INTRODUCTION TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY
Later, I spent several years touring the world, often in places where atrocity had re-
cently been, or still was being, committed. In Central America, I witnessed civil war fought
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by armies that didn’t scruple to resort to massacre. In Equatorial Guinea, the current dicta-
tor was the nephew and henchman of the last dictator, who had killed or drive.
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In the chapter "Crime and Punishment" (429-443 in McQuilken and Copan), various alternatives to prison are presented, and a short section deals with "Christian Responsibility for Criminal Justice." Consider the ideas presented in these sections specifically in light of the USA's continuing battle with illegal drug use. (In light of this, also be aware that Michelle Alexander, in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness [The New Press, 2012], has pointed out that millions of young men are in prison today for minor drug possession offences, or small crimes). Consider the different possibilities and Christian responses in this chapter, and defend, in your initial post, a possible way to deal with minor drug offences that might be more effective than jail terms. You may want to do some internet searching on the matter as well--and if so, include the sources at the bottom of your initial thread. Four Hundred words--minimum (be sure to include the word count
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (429-443 MCQUILKEN AND COPAN)
Crime and Punishment (PAGE 429)
A crime is some activity or negligence that a human authority has decided should be punished, usually because it is deemed injurious to others. Crime and sin are not synonymous. Sin is Godward, and not all sin is criminal (lust or pride). And not all crime is sinful (publicly proclaiming Christ in certain societies).
Crime and its punishment are determined by a society, presumably for the welfare of its members and hopefully based on objective moral principles. Since crime is against others, it normally violates the biblical law of love and often harms another person. Thus, broadly speaking, it fits under the sixth commandment. The punishment of crime is certainly a life issue—depriving criminals of part or all of their lives as free citizens. But controversy rages as to the cause of crime, the nature of crime, the purpose of punishment, and the kind of punishment a just and merciful society may employ. On these issues the Bible sheds significant light.
Philosophical Issues (PAGE 430)
The cause of crime.
Until the end of the nineteenth century, crime in the West was generally considered the outworking of a sinful disposition. And even where moral implications were disallowed, crime was universally considered an act for which the criminals themselves were responsible. That began to change in the last century with other proposed explanations—physiological, psychological, sociological. Through Freud’s influence, mentally sick persons are not responsible for their behavior. The end result of the general acceptance of this approach was to distinguish between criminals who were normal and thus responsible for their crime and those who were abnormal and needed treatment, not punishment. A legal definition of insanity, determined by the Supreme Court in the M’Naghten R.
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The History of Sexuality
Volume I: An Introduction
By the same author
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of
Reason
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
The Archaeology of Knowledge (and The Discourse on Language)
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my
brother . . . A Case of Parricide in the Nineteenth Century
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality
Volume I: An Introduction
by Michel Foucault
Translated from the French
by Robert Hurley
Pantheon Books
New York
English translation Copyright © 1978 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copy
right Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon
Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simul
taneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited,
Toronto. Originally published in France as La Volante de sa voir
by Editions Gallimard, Paris. Copyright © 1976 by Editions
Gallimard.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication
Foucault, Michel.
The History of Sexuality.
Translation of Histoire de la sexualite.
CONTENTS: v. I. An introduction (translation of La Volonte
de savoir)
I. Sex customs--History--Collected works.
I. Title.
HQI2.F6813 1978 301. 41'7 78-51804
ISBN 0-394-41775-5
Manufactured in the United States of America
First American Edition
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Doubleday & Com
pany, Inc., for permission to reprint an excerpt from a
poem by Gottfried August BUrger cited by Arthur Seho
penhauer in The Metaphysics of the Love of the Sexes,
from The Will to Live: Selected Writings of Arthur Scho
pen hauer, edited by Richard Taylor.
Contents
PART ONE We "Other Victorians" 1
PART TWO The Repressive Hypothesis 15
Chapter 1 The Incitement to Discourse 17
Chapter 2 The Perverse Implantation 36
PART THREE Scientia Sexualis 51
PART FOUR The Deployment of Sexuality 75
Chapter 1 Objective 81
Chapter 2 Method 92
Chapter 3 Domain 103
Chapter 4 Periodization 115
PART FIVE Right of Death and Power over Life 133
Index 1 6 1
PART ONE
Jte "Other Victorians"
For a long time, the story goes, we supported a Victorian
regime, and we continue to be dominated by it even today.
Thus the image of the imperial prude is emblazoned on our
restrained, mute, and hypocritical sexuality.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century a certain
frankness was still common, it would seem. Sexual practices
had little need of secrecy; words were said without undue
reticence, and things were done without too much conceal
ment; one had a tolerant familiarity with the illicit. Codes
regulating the coarse, the obscene, and the indecent were
quite lax compared to those ofthe nineteenth century. It was
a time of direct gestures, shameless discourse, and open
transgressions, whe ...
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In the chapter "Crime and Punishment" (429-443 in McQuilken and Copan), various alternatives to prison are presented, and a short section deals with "Christian Responsibility for Criminal Justice." Consider the ideas presented in these sections specifically in light of the USA's continuing battle with illegal drug use. (In light of this, also be aware that Michelle Alexander, in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness [The New Press, 2012], has pointed out that millions of young men are in prison today for minor drug possession offences, or small crimes). Consider the different possibilities and Christian responses in this chapter, and defend, in your initial post, a possible way to deal with minor drug offences that might be more effective than jail terms. You may want to do some internet searching on the matter as well--and if so, include the sources at the bottom of your initial thread. Four Hundred words--minimum (be sure to include the word count
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Below is the pages from the book to use for the assignment.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (429-443 MCQUILKEN AND COPAN)
Crime and Punishment (PAGE 429)
A crime is some activity or negligence that a human authority has decided should be punished, usually because it is deemed injurious to others. Crime and sin are not synonymous. Sin is Godward, and not all sin is criminal (lust or pride). And not all crime is sinful (publicly proclaiming Christ in certain societies).
Crime and its punishment are determined by a society, presumably for the welfare of its members and hopefully based on objective moral principles. Since crime is against others, it normally violates the biblical law of love and often harms another person. Thus, broadly speaking, it fits under the sixth commandment. The punishment of crime is certainly a life issue—depriving criminals of part or all of their lives as free citizens. But controversy rages as to the cause of crime, the nature of crime, the purpose of punishment, and the kind of punishment a just and merciful society may employ. On these issues the Bible sheds significant light.
Philosophical Issues (PAGE 430)
The cause of crime.
Until the end of the nineteenth century, crime in the West was generally considered the outworking of a sinful disposition. And even where moral implications were disallowed, crime was universally considered an act for which the criminals themselves were responsible. That began to change in the last century with other proposed explanations—physiological, psychological, sociological. Through Freud’s influence, mentally sick persons are not responsible for their behavior. The end result of the general acceptance of this approach was to distinguish between criminals who were normal and thus responsible for their crime and those who were abnormal and needed treatment, not punishment. A legal definition of insanity, determined by the Supreme Court in the ...
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This prologue introduces the book which analyzes Senator Joseph McCarthy and his opponents during the McCarthy era controversies. It summarizes that the authors have chosen to investigate McCarthy's actual record rather than accept prevailing judgments, in violation of current intellectual etiquette. It contends the true difference between McCarthy and his opponents is that he took the responsibility of intellectual choices seriously, while they insisted intellectuals bore no responsibility. The prologue argues the scandal was McCarthy's opponents invoking a special dispensation from intellectual responsibility and a "fool's franchise" to avoid being taken seriously for their ideas and commitments.
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Leaving aside both the legal issues involved in deciding wh ti .
1 . . . . . . e 1er capi ta pums~ment 1s const1tut1onal and t~e empmcal issues regarding its
effectiveness as det~rrent and the fairness with which it is applied, is it
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who was Professor ?f Gov~rnment at <?eorgetown University, argues that
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justice. Indeed , by punishi ng criminals appropriately, we are holding
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them as human b eings.
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Lord, mercy shall com pass him about. Be glad in the Lord, and re-
joice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart!" 1
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and as belief in divine reward and punishment declines, it must be
said more emphatically about the law: we must trust in the law, and
those who do will be rewarded. The law must respond to the deeds of
th
e wicked, and the righteous must have confidence that the law will
r~spond, and do so in an appropriate manner. It must punish t~e
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spond to thi s c rime. The law must ass uage ~h a t an ge r ~y satisfying it,
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CHAP TER 36
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The Morality of Capital Punishment -
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Leaving aside both the legal issues involved in deciding wh ti .
1 . . . . . . e 1er capi ta pums~ment 1s const1tut1onal and t~e empmcal issues regarding its
effectiveness as det~rrent and the fairness with which it is applied, is it
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who was Professor ?f Gov~rnment at <?eorgetown University, argues that
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rendous crimes and our ange r at those who have perpetrated brutal in-
justice. Indeed , by punishi ng criminals appropriately, we are holding
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them as human b eings.
"Many sorrows sh all b e to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the
Lord, mercy shall com pass him about. Be glad in the Lord, and re-
joice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart!" 1
What is said in Psalms about the Lord must also be said about the law,
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Roosevelt Grier, the former New York Giants defensive lmeman,
:~
th
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eir eyes. They are shocked, then grief stricken, then angry; but
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c
1979
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h
. ri -
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spond to thi s c rime. The law must ass uage ~h a t an ge r ~y satisfying it,
bu t n ot ... simply to pre ve nt the m fr o m ta km g the law mto th e ir own
h a nd s.
Co n side r a n o the r example. A few years ago , a seven-ye ar-old bo
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n ex t d ay, in a n ea rby neighborhood , a twenty- e ight-year-old woman
was sta bbe d to d e ath in the doorway to her apartment. When the
p o lice caught th e man suspected of doing it, they had a hard time
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thirty-one -ye ar-old m a n was stabbed to death by a burglar in his
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When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt
to society. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping.
Autumn 2004
When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt
to society. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping.
You cannot pay a debt by having caused even greater expense, nor can you pay in
advance for a bank robbery by offering to serve a prison sentence before you commit it.
Perhaps, metaphorically speaking, the slate is wiped clean once a prisoner is released
from prison, but the debt is not paid off.
It would be just as absurd for me to say, on my imminent retirement after 14 years of my
hospital and prison work, that I have paid my debt to society. I had the choice to do
something more pleasing if I had wished, and I was paid, if not munificently, at least
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medically speaking, the poor are more interesting, at least to me, than the rich: their
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My work has caused me to become perhaps unhealthily preoccupied with the problem
of evil. Why do people commit evil? What conditions allow it to flourish? How is it best
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mind.
No doubt my previous experiences fostered my preoccupation with this problem. My
mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany, and though she spoke very little of her life
before she came to Britain, the mere fact that there was much of which she did not speak
gave evil a ghostly presence in our household.
Later, I spent several years touring the world, often in places where atrocity had recently
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between guerrilla groups intent on imposing totalitarian tyranny on their societies,
opposed by armies that didn't scruple to resort to massacre. In Equatorial Guinea, the
current dictator was the nephew and henchman of the .
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Chapter 10
Theodore
Dalrymple
The Frivolity of Evil
Theodore Dalrymple
When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt to soci-
ety. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping. You cannot
pay a debt by having caused even greater expense, nor can you pay in advance for a bank rob-
bery by offering to serve a prison sentence before you commit it. Perhaps, metaphorically
speaking, the slate is wiped clean once a prisoner is released from prison, but the debt is not
paid off.
It would be just as absurd for me to say, on my imminent retirement after 14 years of my
hospital and prison work, that I have paid my debt to society. I had the choice to do something
more pleasing if I had wished, and I was paid, if not munificently, at least adequately. I chose
the disagreeable neighborhood in which I practiced because, medically speaking, the poor are
more interesting, at least to me, than the rich: their pathology is more florid, their need for
attention greater. Their dilemmas, if cruder, seem to me more compelling, nearer to the funda-
mentals of human existence. No doubt I also felt my services would be more valuable there: in
other words, that I had some kind of duty to perform. Perhaps for that reason, like the prisoner
on his release, I feel I have paid my debt to society. Certainly, the work has taken a toll on me,
and it is time to do something else. Someone else can do battle with the metastasizing social
pathology of Great Britain, while I lead a life aesthetically more pleasing to me.
121
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by permission.
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My work has caused me to become perhaps unhealthily preoccupied with the problem of
evil. Why do people commit evil? What conditions allow it to flourish? How is it best pre-
vented and, when necessary, suppressed? Each time I listen to a patient recounting the cruelty
to which he or she has been subjected, or has committed (and I have listened to several such
patients every day for 14 years), these questions revolve endlessly in my mind.
No doubt my previous experiences fostered my preoccupation with this problem. My
mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany, and though she spoke very little of her life before
she came to Britain, the mere fact that there was much of which she did not speak gave evil a
ghostly presence in our household.
Later, I spent several years touring the world, often in places where atrocity had recently
been, or still was being, committed. In Central America, I witnessed civil war fought between
guerrilla groups intent on imposing totalitarian tyranny on their societies, opposed by armies
that didn’t scruple to resort to massacre. In Equatorial Guinea, the current dictator was the
nephew and henchman of the last dictator, who had killed or driven into exile a t.
Chapter 10TheodoreDalrympleThe Frivolity of EvilTh.docx
Chapter 10
Theodore
Dalrymple
The Frivolity of Evil
Theodore Dalrymple
When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt to soci-
ety. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping. You cannot
pay a debt by having caused even greater expense, nor can you pay in advance for a bank rob-
bery by offering to serve a prison sentence before you commit it. Perhaps, metaphorically
speaking, the slate is wiped clean once a prisoner is released from prison, but the debt is not
paid off.
It would be just as absurd for me to say, on my imminent retirement after 14 years of my
hospital and prison work, that I have paid my debt to society. I had the choice to do something
more pleasing if I had wished, and I was paid, if not munificently, at least adequately. I chose
the disagreeable neighborhood in which I practiced because, medically speaking, the poor are
more interesting, at least to me, than the rich: their pathology is more florid, their need for
attention greater. Their dilemmas, if cruder, seem to me more compelling, nearer to the funda-
mentals of human existence. No doubt I also felt my services would be more valuable there: in
other words, that I had some kind of duty to perform. Perhaps for that reason, like the prisoner
on his release, I feel I have paid my debt to society. Certainly, the work has taken a toll on me,
and it is time to do something else. Someone else can do battle with the metastasizing social
pathology of Great Britain, while I lead a life aesthetically more pleasing to me.
121
From City Journal, Autumn 2004 by Theodore Dalrymple. Copyright © 2004 by The Manhattan Institute. Reprinted
by permission.
1
2
10_Arandia.qxp_8.5 x 10.88 Standard 4/12/16 10:13 AM Page 121
My work has caused me to become perhaps unhealthily preoccupied with the problem of
evil. Why do people commit evil? What conditions allow it to flourish? How is it best pre-
vented and, when necessary, suppressed? Each time I listen to a patient recounting the cruelty
to which he or she has been subjected, or has committed (and I have listened to several such
patients every day for 14 years), these questions revolve endlessly in my mind.
No doubt my previous experiences fostered my preoccupation with this problem. My
mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany, and though she spoke very little of her life before
she came to Britain, the mere fact that there was much of which she did not speak gave evil a
ghostly presence in our household.
Later, I spent several years touring the world, often in places where atrocity had recently
been, or still was being, committed. In Central America, I witnessed civil war fought between
guerrilla groups intent on imposing totalitarian tyranny on their societies, opposed by armies
that didn’t scruple to resort to massacre. In Equatorial Guinea, the current dictator was the
nephew and henchman of the last dictator, who had killed or driven into exile a t ...
Theodore DalrympleThe Frivolity of EvilWhen prisoners are .docx
Theodore Dalrymple
The Frivolity of Evil
When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt
to society. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping.
Autumn 2004
When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt
to society. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping.
You cannot pay a debt by having caused even greater expense, nor can you pay in
advance for a bank robbery by offering to serve a prison sentence before you commit it.
Perhaps, metaphorically speaking, the slate is wiped clean once a prisoner is released
from prison, but the debt is not paid off.
It would be just as absurd for me to say, on my imminent retirement after 14 years of my
hospital and prison work, that I have paid my debt to society. I had the choice to do
something more pleasing if I had wished, and I was paid, if not munificently, at least
adequately. I chose the disagreeable neighborhood in which I practiced because,
medically speaking, the poor are more interesting, at least to me, than the rich: their
pathology is more florid, their need for attention greater. Their dilemmas, if cruder,
seem to me more compelling, nearer to the fundamentals of human existence. No doubt
I also felt my services would be more valuable there: in other words, that I had some
kind of duty to perform. Perhaps for that reason, like the prisoner on his release, I feel I
have paid my debt to society. Certainly, the work has taken a toll on me, and it is time to
do something else. Someone else can do battle with the metastasizing social pathology of
Great Britain, while I lead a life aesthetically more pleasing to me.
My work has caused me to become perhaps unhealthily preoccupied with the problem
of evil. Why do people commit evil? What conditions allow it to flourish? How is it best
prevented and, when necessary, suppressed? Each time I listen to a patient recounting
the cruelty to which he or she has been subjected, or has committed (and I have listened to several such patients every day for 14 years), these questions revolve endlessly in my
mind.
No doubt my previous experiences fostered my preoccupation with this problem. My
mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany, and though she spoke very little of her life
before she came to Britain, the mere fact that there was much of which she did not speak
gave evil a ghostly presence in our household.
Later, I spent several years touring the world, often in places where atrocity had recently
been, or still was being, committed. In Central America, I witnessed civil war fought
between guerrilla groups intent on imposing totalitarian tyranny on their societies,
opposed by armies that didn't scruple to resort to massacre. In Equatorial Guinea, the
current dictator was the nephew and henchman of the last dictator, who had killed or
driven into exile a third of the population, ...
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Discourse on Colonialism Aimé Césaire Translated b.docx
Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire
Translated by Joan Pinkham. This version published by Monthly Review Press: New York and London,
1972. Originally published as Discours sur le colonialisme by Editions Presence Africaine, 1955.
COPYRIGHT: From a Counter-Racist perspective, this is nothing other than a mechanism employed by
White Supremacists (Racists) that has been designed to control access to information by non-White people.
Contents
DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM ................................................................................... 1
AN INTERVIEW WITH AIMÉ CÉSAIRE ....................................................................... 25
Discourse on Colonialism
A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent
civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken
civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.
The fact is that the so-called European civilization – "Western" civilization - as it has
been shaped by two centuries of bourgeois rule, is incapable of solving the two major
problems to which its existence has given rise: the problem of the proletariat and the
colonial problem; that Europe is unable to justify itself either before the bar of "reason" or
before the bar of "conscience"; and that, increasingly, it takes refuge in a hypocrisy which
is all the more odious because it is less and less likely to deceive.
Europe is indefensible.
Apparently that is what the American strategists are whispering to each other.
That in itself is not serious.
What is serious is that "Europe" is morally, spiritually indefensible.
And today the indictment is brought against it not by the European masses alone,
but on a world scale, by tens and tens of millions of men who, from the depths of slavery,
set themselves up as judges.
The colonialists may kill in Indochina, torture in Madagascar, imprison in Black
Africa, crackdown in the West Indies. Henceforth, the colonized know that they have an
advantage over them. They know that their temporary, "masters" are lying.
Therefore, that their masters are weak.
And since I have been asked to speak about colonization and civilization, let us go
straight to the principal lie which is the source of all the others.
Colonization and civilization?
- 1 -
In dealing with this subject, the commonest curse is to be the dupe in good faith of
a collective hypocrisy that cleverly misrepresents problems, the better to legitimize the
hateful solutions provided for them.
In other words, the essential thing here is to see clearly, to think clearly - that is,
dangerously - and to answer clearly the innocent first question: what, fundamentally, is
colonization? To agree on what it is not: neither evangelization, nor a philanthropic
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155Chapter 11The Frivolity of EvilTheodore Dalrymple.docx
155
Chapter 11
The Frivolity of Evil
Theodore Dalrymple
When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt to
society. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping. You
cannot pay a debt by having caused even greater expense, nor can you pay in advance for
a bank robbery by offering to serve a prison sentence before you commit it. Perhaps, meta-
phorically speaking, the slate is wiped clean once a prisoner is released from prison, but
the debt is not paid off.
It would be just as absurd for me to say, on my imminent retirement after 14 years of
my hospital and prison work, that I have paid my debt to society. I had the choice to do
something more pleasing if I had wished, and I was paid, if not munificently, at least ade-
quately. I chose the disagreeable neighborhood in which I practiced because, medically
speaking, the poor are more interesting, at least to me, than the rich: their pathology is
more florid, their need for attention greater. Their dilemmas, if cruder, seem to me more
compelling, nearer to the fundamentals of human existence. No doubt I also felt my ser-
vices would be more valuable there: in other words, that I had some kind of duty to per-
form. Perhaps for that reason, like the prisoner on his release, I feel I have paid my debt to
society. Certainly, the work has taken a toll on me, and it is time to do something else.
Someone else can do battle with the metastasizing social pathology of Great Britain, while
I lead a life aesthetically more pleasing to me.
My work has caused me to become perhaps unhealthily preoccupied with the problem
of evil. Why do people commit evil? What conditions allow it to flourish? How is it best pre-
vented and, when necessary, suppressed? Each time I listen to a patient recounting the
cruelty to which he or she has been subjected, or has committed (and I have listened to
several such patients every day for 14 years), these questions revolve endlessly in my mind.
No doubt my previous experiences fostered my preoccupation with this problem. My
mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany, and though she spoke very little of her life be-
fore she came to Britain, the mere fact that there was much of which she did not speak
gave evil a ghostly presence in our household.
From City Journal, Autumn 2004 by Theodore Dalrymple. Copyright © 2004 by The Manhattan Institute. Reprinted
by permission.
Copyright 2013 Kendall Hunt Publishing
156 AN INTRODUCTION TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY
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between guerrilla groups intent on imposing totalitarian tyranny on their societies, opposed
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tor was the nephew and henchman of the last dictator, who had killed or drive.
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In the chapter "Crime and Punishment" (429-443 in McQuilken and Copan), various alternatives to prison are presented, and a short section deals with "Christian Responsibility for Criminal Justice." Consider the ideas presented in these sections specifically in light of the USA's continuing battle with illegal drug use. (In light of this, also be aware that Michelle Alexander, in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness [The New Press, 2012], has pointed out that millions of young men are in prison today for minor drug possession offences, or small crimes). Consider the different possibilities and Christian responses in this chapter, and defend, in your initial post, a possible way to deal with minor drug offences that might be more effective than jail terms. You may want to do some internet searching on the matter as well--and if so, include the sources at the bottom of your initial thread. Four Hundred words--minimum (be sure to include the word count
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Below is the pages from the book to use for the assignment.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (429-443 MCQUILKEN AND COPAN)
Crime and Punishment (PAGE 429)
A crime is some activity or negligence that a human authority has decided should be punished, usually because it is deemed injurious to others. Crime and sin are not synonymous. Sin is Godward, and not all sin is criminal (lust or pride). And not all crime is sinful (publicly proclaiming Christ in certain societies).
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Philosophical Issues (PAGE 430)
The cause of crime.
Until the end of the nineteenth century, crime in the West was generally considered the outworking of a sinful disposition. And even where moral implications were disallowed, crime was universally considered an act for which the criminals themselves were responsible. That began to change in the last century with other proposed explanations—physiological, psychological, sociological. Through Freud’s influence, mentally sick persons are not responsible for their behavior. The end result of the general acceptance of this approach was to distinguish between criminals who were normal and thus responsible for their crime and those who were abnormal and needed treatment, not punishment. A legal definition of insanity, determined by the Supreme Court in the M’Naghten R.
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The History of Sexuality Volume I An Introduction B.docx
The History of Sexuality
Volume I: An Introduction
By the same author
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of
Reason
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
The Archaeology of Knowledge (and The Discourse on Language)
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality
Volume I: An Introduction
by Michel Foucault
Translated from the French
by Robert Hurley
Pantheon Books
New York
English translation Copyright © 1978 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copy
right Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon
Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simul
taneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited,
Toronto. Originally published in France as La Volante de sa voir
by Editions Gallimard, Paris. Copyright © 1976 by Editions
Gallimard.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication
Foucault, Michel.
The History of Sexuality.
Translation of Histoire de la sexualite.
CONTENTS: v. I. An introduction (translation of La Volonte
de savoir)
I. Sex customs--History--Collected works.
I. Title.
HQI2.F6813 1978 301. 41'7 78-51804
ISBN 0-394-41775-5
Manufactured in the United States of America
First American Edition
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Doubleday & Com
pany, Inc., for permission to reprint an excerpt from a
poem by Gottfried August BUrger cited by Arthur Seho
penhauer in The Metaphysics of the Love of the Sexes,
from The Will to Live: Selected Writings of Arthur Scho
pen hauer, edited by Richard Taylor.
Contents
PART ONE We "Other Victorians" 1
PART TWO The Repressive Hypothesis 15
Chapter 1 The Incitement to Discourse 17
Chapter 2 The Perverse Implantation 36
PART THREE Scientia Sexualis 51
PART FOUR The Deployment of Sexuality 75
Chapter 1 Objective 81
Chapter 2 Method 92
Chapter 3 Domain 103
Chapter 4 Periodization 115
PART FIVE Right of Death and Power over Life 133
Index 1 6 1
PART ONE
Jte "Other Victorians"
For a long time, the story goes, we supported a Victorian
regime, and we continue to be dominated by it even today.
Thus the image of the imperial prude is emblazoned on our
restrained, mute, and hypocritical sexuality.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century a certain
frankness was still common, it would seem. Sexual practices
had little need of secrecy; words were said without undue
reticence, and things were done without too much conceal
ment; one had a tolerant familiarity with the illicit. Codes
regulating the coarse, the obscene, and the indecent were
quite lax compared to those ofthe nineteenth century. It was
a time of direct gestures, shameless discourse, and open
transgressions, whe ...
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Assignments
In the chapter "Crime and Punishment" (429-443 in McQuilken and Copan), various alternatives to prison are presented, and a short section deals with "Christian Responsibility for Criminal Justice." Consider the ideas presented in these sections specifically in light of the USA's continuing battle with illegal drug use. (In light of this, also be aware that Michelle Alexander, in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness [The New Press, 2012], has pointed out that millions of young men are in prison today for minor drug possession offences, or small crimes). Consider the different possibilities and Christian responses in this chapter, and defend, in your initial post, a possible way to deal with minor drug offences that might be more effective than jail terms. You may want to do some internet searching on the matter as well--and if so, include the sources at the bottom of your initial thread. Four Hundred words--minimum (be sure to include the word count
------------------------------------
Below is the pages from the book to use for the assignment.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (429-443 MCQUILKEN AND COPAN)
Crime and Punishment (PAGE 429)
A crime is some activity or negligence that a human authority has decided should be punished, usually because it is deemed injurious to others. Crime and sin are not synonymous. Sin is Godward, and not all sin is criminal (lust or pride). And not all crime is sinful (publicly proclaiming Christ in certain societies).
Crime and its punishment are determined by a society, presumably for the welfare of its members and hopefully based on objective moral principles. Since crime is against others, it normally violates the biblical law of love and often harms another person. Thus, broadly speaking, it fits under the sixth commandment. The punishment of crime is certainly a life issue—depriving criminals of part or all of their lives as free citizens. But controversy rages as to the cause of crime, the nature of crime, the purpose of punishment, and the kind of punishment a just and merciful society may employ. On these issues the Bible sheds significant light.
Philosophical Issues (PAGE 430)
The cause of crime.
Until the end of the nineteenth century, crime in the West was generally considered the outworking of a sinful disposition. And even where moral implications were disallowed, crime was universally considered an act for which the criminals themselves were responsible. That began to change in the last century with other proposed explanations—physiological, psychological, sociological. Through Freud’s influence, mentally sick persons are not responsible for their behavior. The end result of the general acceptance of this approach was to distinguish between criminals who were normal and thus responsible for their crime and those who were abnormal and needed treatment, not punishment. A legal definition of insanity, determined by the Supreme Court in the ...
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Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
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- 1. HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: 1648 TO PRESENT LECTURE 6: WHAT WERE THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT?
- 2. Oliver Goldsmith, THE CITIZEN of the WORLD; OR, LETTERS FROM A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER, Residing in LONDON, TO HIS FRIENDS in the EAST, vol. 1. DUBLIN, 1762. pp. 270-76. (from the Oxford Text Archive, http://ota.ox.ac.uk/text/3334.html. Originally published in Public Ledger or The Daily Register of Commerce and Intelligence (London, England), Monday, July 28, 1760; Issue 170.
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