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the way you know, for example, the further damage on the peoples of In- Correspondence principle of...
...19] and still point out for the Daniel C. Maguire's more recent book, on-going abuses...
...JEAN BEIHKE E SHTAIN is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst...
...And plain why Minh deserves higher priority been turning out recently in this field...
...government, all for regretting REVIEWERS FATHER DONALD SENIOR, C.P., Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, is the Editor of The Bible Today...
...and world financial institutions...
...My argument, to which he does not speak, and which is Narberth, Pa...
...Johann's statements, tional moral experience that would be every case of known political murder...
...One paragraph can serve as lynch mob, in this case with myself as proposed mobile...
...Forest consistently disregards the fact that the truly massive human rights violations in Vietnam were and continue to be those of the United States, which left a devastated land and people...
...Molloy College Johann speaks twice of the "rational fear not many 'peace' organizations will Was Minh a distraction...
...DANIEL C. MAGUIRE that "we" must also be guilty for not author's book is called "brightly writ- Theology Department protesting the sufferings of each and ten," "remarkably erudite," "light Marquette University every one of the 15,000 people who years away from practically everything have "disappeared" in Argentina since philosophers have been turning out re- Original ethical realism the 1976 coup...
...Minh was not, as far as we know, and logic or sterile reason...
...an unprovoked assault...
...Rockville Centre, N.Y...
...And Kevin Michael McAuliffe's persuasive history of The Voice portrays toughguy-in-print Cockburn as the office toady, constantly sidling up to the most powerful man in the room...
...JAMES R. KELLY THE GREAT AMERICAN NEWSPAPER: The Rise and Fall of the Village Voice, by Kevin Michael McAulife, Scribners, $14.95, 473 pp...
...Every Wednesday I hand over 60 cents for The Village Voice, and am beginning to feel the same way...
...What magic there is in words...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Micimplicit in all human experience...
...DENNIS vEU.UCCi has taught English and American Studies at the University of Southem California and is presently an editor for New York University publications...
...Commonweal: 130 strongly with economic variables such as unemployment, relief work, and job insecurity...
...The foolishness of this position author who would criticize one part of a only if there were but one cognitional is suggested by its further implication review when in the rest of the review the theory...
...Herman sleeps best at night if first delivered of a fresh indictment of U.S...
...Jim Forest, will you not get out and protest the human rights violation of the next Loatian or South Vietnamese farmer whose legs are severed by an exploding land mine...
...Maguire develvaluable that one might reasonably lay . ops his method and interrelates his ideas our sphere of influence, still getting down one's life for them-is universally in such a unique way that he allows for some military aid and huge loans from knowable but not universally known...
...I used to hang on for Alexander Cockburn's Press Clips hoping to glean, beyond his cynical snickers and pet hates, some useful background stuff to share with my journalism classes...
...quite unfounded...
...48106...
...JEFFREY MEYERS's books include works on Lawrence and Orwell...
...I say that the foundational where hundreds if not thousands have moral man by balancing traditional and moral experience-that persons are so died...
...bombers, and the prostitutes, drug addicts and diseased in body and mind have been left to suffer unaided by the former invader.The neglect of the human rights issues involved here (including problems of survival and rehabilitation) by people like Jim Forest is scandalous...
...spoiled"), Clay Felker and Rupert Murdoch have changed it into a packaged commodity written to match the editors' notion of what will sell...
...He observes that conflict can be based on rational andvirrational grounds, that not all conflict is bad, and that ethnicreligious conflicts will persist: ". . . America will probably see these conflicts, in varying degrees of intensity, wax and wane many times in the future...
...His last and only analytic chapter entitled "On Ethnic Conflict," consists of a scant four pages of some basic sociology...
...government extremely Review Digest...
...The real mystery of The Voice seems to be how a group of people who disliked and mistrusted one another so much could put out a paper at all...
...here is the crux of my disagreement with treatment...
...Only a avoiding being "silent witnesses" Moral Choice "is light years away from rationalistic conception of the founda- where silence counts...
...A. NICHOLAS FARGNOLI Forest quotes Thich Nhat Hahn: "I Johann...
...practical implications without resorting U.S...
...The analogy with Kitty courses on ethics...
...In and universal basis for moral action...
...Since 1975 hundreds of farmers have died from exploding ordnance left by U.S...
...edge" of it-"moral barbarians" in my interest in alleviating human distress and Johann's observation that Maguire's special usage of that term...
...To the contrary of Johann would have me posit a founda- Jim Forest has not vigorously protested one of Mr...
...His latest is A Fever at the Core: Six Studies of the Idealist in Politics...
...In his view, the test is severity of violence, should understood, cannot lead to relativism or that would save me from particularism to subjectivism...
...A second deception is the equating of the Minh case with, say Biko, or the Argentinian torture-killing plague...
...Johann does not All of this shows only that Johann and rate detention centers where extremely seem to grasp-is an original ethical I are working out of different cognitional savage tortures are carried out and epistemology which ultimately liberates theories...
...Argentina there are several dozen sepasomething which Mr...
...guilty for failing to protest in the case of No relativist he Johann judges that I am not really in- Thich Thien Minh, who died in a VietMilwaukee, Wisc...
...16 March 1979: 157...
...Consider also that Argentina is in contemporary insights...
...evils, but a broadside at anyone disturbed at torture and death under Marxist political sponsorship is an acceptable alternative...
...What well in diverting attention from the rise rofilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mi...
...supine...
...explain to us just why we should have I used The Moral Choice in my fall Johann says that my "foundational chosen Minh...
...GEORGE EL LARD teaches in the philosophy department at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania...
...If moral knowledge continues a campaign by him that has Index of American Periodical Verse, and Book were indeed only rational, it could be served the U.S...
...There is dochina...
...RAYMOND A. SCHROTH Correspondence (Continued from page 130) in South Africa, Chile, Argentina, or South Korea...
...I am guilty of bringing aid and comfort to the U.S...
...In McAuliffe's version, there is the good old Voice, the mirror of the emerg- - ing counter-culture, the "writers" newspaper, where founder-editor Dan Wolf let bright, young, mixed-up, floundering men and women pour out their guts, politics and sensibilities-and thus caught the imagination of a changing America-and the bad, new Voice where a succession of not-to-be-trusted money-men like Carter Burden ("willful...
...energies, it is irresponsible demaYet I believe I must thank Robert O. goguery to pretend that any of us can To the Editors: I was startled by the many Johann for his review of my The Moral protest even a substantial minority of inaccuracies of Mr...
...JAMES R. KELLY teaches in the sociology department at Fordham University...
...The implication is that peace organizations regularly respond with energy to ordinary imprisonments in Chile, Argentina, etc...
...FATHER RAYMOND A. SCHROTH, S.J., is associate editor of Commonweal and the author of The Eagle and Brooklyn (Greenwood...
...notice this event or respond to it with the basis" of moral behavior...
...In his interpretation of ethnic conflict Bayor wisely minimizes the significance of psychological factors, such as a putative "authoritarian personality structure" and employs some standard sociological explanations, such as status-insecurity, loss of mobility opportunities, and direct economic competition...
...sneaky...
...It is not merely a question of neglect-this selfrighteous focus on a few selected and privileged individuals, in a complex and difficult environment, has contributed to the further savaging of a huge army of victims (still denied even the right to trade, let alone to rceive aid for the victims o1...
...Must I, to avoid relativism, say it is "im- to rigid 'structures...
...RONALD DE FEO writes for The National Review, The Nation and other journals...
...in moral knowledge what the Thomistic Forest implies that "we" are all tradition called "affective knowledge...
...I think some readers will miss a more rigorous connection between group conflict and the economic structure of society which, Bayor observes, is the catalyst of much of the periodic group animosity he reports and anticipates...
...If Maguire's ethical realism, if properly "implicit in all experience...
...Since we all have finite cently in this field," "brilliant," etc...
...sphere of influence Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...EDWARD S. HERMAN The author replies I imagine Mr...
...the rationalistic tradition misses is that of a literal empire of torture and death Serials Data Program No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...But most will find it a useful reference work...
...Forest fails to expractically everything philosophers have tions of morality could suggest that...
...wimpy...
...energy they might give had it happened central to my cognitional theory, is that To the Editors: James Forest's article on (Continued on page 157) the basis or morality is not merely ra- "A Vietnamese Martyr...
...the way you know, for example, the further damage on the peoples of InCorrespondence principle of non-contradiction...
...The work incorporates moral experience" is "particular" and the neglected role of creative imagination Genovese goes even beyond dema"contingent" because it is one which goguery, since Genovese was murdered, and affectivity...
...terested in "basic cognitional theory namese prison under unknown circumTo the Editors: Probably it is an ingrate applied to ethics...
...we not be protesting the huge number of and relativism and provide a "rational" What Maguire does achieve- cases of known killing and torture...
...One of his recent columns made a joke out of Karen Quinlan...
...Microfilm from Vol...
...Twice a week, on the way from Commonweal to Grand Central Station, I put out 25 cents for the New York Post and feel that I am simply giving the quarter away...
...That would be true stances...
...Even Forest does not claim that Minh was tortured or killed, whereas Biko and literally thousands of Argentinians and Chileans have been...
...I hang on for the Off-Off Broadway reviews-and above all for Andrew Sarris, whose just-published collection of film reviews, Politics and Cinema (Columbia University Press, $12.95 [206 pp.] marks him again as a toughminded,independent critic I should not try to do without...
...perience and know the value of persons and in justifying its policy of inflicting Copyright © 1979 Commonweal Publishing Co...
...The parable of Commonweal is indexed in Readers Guide to tional, but also affective, mystical, and a the unresponsive witnesses" [Dec...
...you do not abstractly and implicitly ex- squads in the U.S...
...This is a gross misrepresentation of fact-daily abductions, tortures and killing occur on a large scale, mostly unprotested...
...Johann's review of Choice (Jan...
...22] Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, product of faith...
...We must invariably record that his charge of "relativism" is choose, and we look in vain for Forest to The Moral Choice [Jan...
...No more...
...Ethics is not based on some persons "could be without...
...We ought to be able to exert real leverplicit" in those who evince no "knowl- age in this case, assuming a genuine However, I do agree with Mr...
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