Shows tagged with : Culture

  • July 01 : Identities Lost & Found in a Global Age
    Throughout human history, people have tended to live and die in the place they're born. Place is an important part of identity. But what happens when...
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  • May 06 : What Are Human Rights?
    According to the Declaration of Independence, the basic human rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are God-given. Whatever the role...
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  • March 11 : What Is a Wife?
    The concept of a wife has been embedded in cultures, religious practices, social customs and economic patterns of wildly different sorts.  Is...
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  • February 19 : What Is 'Normal'?
    What does it mean to be normal?  And abnormal?  Who gets to decide, and what are the repercussions?  When do we applaud deviations...
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  • August 07 : The State of Public Philosophy
    In the 18th and 19th Century, philosophers and intellectuals were immersed in politics and popular culture.  Even in the early 20th Century some...
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  • May 08 : Cities, Gentrification, and Inequality
    In the 1960s, as many American cities burst and burned, the upper and middle classes fled to the suburbs, leaving behind a decaying infrastructure...
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  • February 20 : Bi-racial Identities
    Many people identify strongly with the ethnic or racial group to which they belong – as Jews, or African-Americans, or Latinos.  But to which...
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  • January 23 : Different Cultures, Different Selves
    Why do we do what we do? To please others? To live up to what culture expects? Or for our own reasons – as "autonomous agents"? Americans tend to...
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  • May 09 : Mental Illness and Culture
    Paranoia, depression, schizophrenia, bipolarity, and all the other ways Americans have discovered to be crazy – are they universal phenomena, rooted...
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  • March 01 : Bi-racial Identities
    Many people identify strongly with the ethnic or racial group to which they belong – as Jews, or African-Americans, or Latinos.  But to which...
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  • February 06, 2012 : Black Solidarity
    posted by KT February is Black History Month.  So we thought it might be a good time to do an...
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  • May 20 : Social Reality
    Few things affect our lives as much as the fact that we are citizens of one country rather than another. The government of, the economy of, and the...
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  • May 27 : Summer Reading List 2012
    Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Plato's Collected Dialogues may be a bit much to take on vacation, but there are lots of...
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    The question of gay rights has become a hot button issue, with opposition taking on the air of a moral panic and support taking on the air of a...
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    When we make claims about things that could have been—what philosophers call counterfactual statements—we are, in some sense, sliding between...
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    According to Proverbs, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. But lies on human lips are as common as fleas on a dog. What is a lie? Are all...
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  • July 01 : Identities Lost & Found in a Global Age
    Throughout human history, people have tended to live and die in the place they're born. Place is an important part of identity. But what happens when...
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