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rshow55 - 04:10pm Feb 16, 2003 EST (# 9009 of 9013)
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Summary of postings between Sept 25, 2000 and March 1, 2001 (#6)

People interested in religion and ethics may be particularly interested in #792-797. rshowalter 2/27/01 6:03pm

It begins: ..... Tina Rosenberg represents one of the most admirable flowerings of a tradition, admirable in many ways, that , taken no further than she takes it, makes an effective nuclear disarmament impossible.

Rosenberg believes .... People need to know what was actually done. ...That's surely right.

But what was to be done with the facts? . .. . .

Something was missing from the book, and the situations it described.

In the complex, conflicted situations described, beautiful justice is impossible. There are multiple contexts, each inescapable and in a fundamental sense valid.

An aesthetically satisfying justice can be defined for each and every set of assumptions and perspectives that can be defined. But there are too many sets of assumptions and perspectives that cannot be escaped in the complex circumstances that are actually there. . . .. .. . .

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md789_791b.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md792_794.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md795_796.htm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md797_798.htm

The situations Rosenberg describes, where she hungers for justice, do not admit of satisfactory justice. They are too complicated. . . . . . What is needed, for logical reasons that are fundamentally secular rather than religious, is redemption. rshowalter 2/27/01 6:03pm

http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md00100s/md792_794.htm