By Stuart J Whitley |
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In
my last post I wondered about whether or not there was an ethic of
aging. Again, by ‘ethics’ I mean simply some general consensus or
agreement about what is good about the way we relate to one another.
This is a group or communal expression of belief, rather than an
individual or moral outlook. The distinction is thus simply drawn
between morals and ethics, terms which are often interposed. I should
be more explicit and ask whether there is a reasonable consensus around
obligations associated with the process of aging. One needs to be clear
about such things because there are many ethical issues relating to
this subject: the diminishment of worth of old people and their
relegation to institutional repositories, the abuse of the elderly, the
genetic or pharmaceutical tinkering with the aging process, and so on.[
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By Shae Hadden |
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I
was in an interesting conversation recently about how we can interact
with people who hold different beliefs than ours. The question posed
was, “How can one be with someone whose beliefs are the antithesis of
our own?” An important inquiry to engage in, considering that a clash
of beliefs is at the heart of most conflict and strife between people. Responses from the group varied from escape[
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By Stu WhitleyBioThis is the third post in a three-part series.
In
the 18th century, Sir William Herschel became the first man to discover
a planet, Uranus, and six years later, he found two moons to that
frozen, unimaginable world. His sister was an eminent astronomer as
well, discovering three nebulae and eight comets. His son John, born
into a family steeped in brilliance, wrote Treatise on Astronomy in
1833, in which he, like all visionaries, looked to the heavens to
illustrate the central point in his work: he warned against
misinterpretation and what he called ‘vulgar errors’ arising from
imperfect or habitual apprehension. His instruction to men of reason
was
to try and listen, to see, and to understand the gigantic truths behind the reduced forms of mundane existence, in the same way as a sailor knows but cannot immediately measure the frozen immensity under the iceberg’s cap.[
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