Rousseau had Platonic ideas about village life and even hunter-gatherer existence. Shyamalan's film made me think of The Republic so much that I didn't even stop to think at Rousseau.
Dear Julian, I really don't understand why this writer is appearing so often on your website. I don't like religious preaching and religious homilies. I don't want Catholics (and I used to be one) who believe that Catholicism and the writings of popes are the last word in wisdom. The Catholic Church has an intellectual history and that history has been riddled with injustice while asserting that it is good and proper. It was sand is an institution that practices power in the world and it is doing so today and women and children have and still are its victims. As do all the patriarchal religions, the Catholic Church and Christianity itself represent an uncomfortable place for women and girls and always has been. Christian theology is not the answer. People who believe in ethics and morality and justice for themselves and others, some of whom are Catholic or Christians generally, are needed, yes. Even then we may go wrong. As for Rousseau, he was a selfish man who abandoned his wife and children and did not practice what he preached. I hope you are not ill. I look forward to having you back with us doing interviews with interesting people. Let's hear from this man himself in an interview for that matter where we could better assess his beliefs with greater clarity. He is no doubt a very nice man but I think we are beyond being preached to now.
Strictly speaking it is, but the text always bears on religion, specifically, Catholic/Christian. These offerings are simple and without a great deal of nuance, if any.
Rousseau had Platonic ideas about village life and even hunter-gatherer existence. Shyamalan's film made me think of The Republic so much that I didn't even stop to think at Rousseau.
Dear Julian, I really don't understand why this writer is appearing so often on your website. I don't like religious preaching and religious homilies. I don't want Catholics (and I used to be one) who believe that Catholicism and the writings of popes are the last word in wisdom. The Catholic Church has an intellectual history and that history has been riddled with injustice while asserting that it is good and proper. It was sand is an institution that practices power in the world and it is doing so today and women and children have and still are its victims. As do all the patriarchal religions, the Catholic Church and Christianity itself represent an uncomfortable place for women and girls and always has been. Christian theology is not the answer. People who believe in ethics and morality and justice for themselves and others, some of whom are Catholic or Christians generally, are needed, yes. Even then we may go wrong. As for Rousseau, he was a selfish man who abandoned his wife and children and did not practice what he preached. I hope you are not ill. I look forward to having you back with us doing interviews with interesting people. Let's hear from this man himself in an interview for that matter where we could better assess his beliefs with greater clarity. He is no doubt a very nice man but I think we are beyond being preached to now.
Really? I thought it was a philosophy essay.
Strictly speaking it is, but the text always bears on religion, specifically, Catholic/Christian. These offerings are simple and without a great deal of nuance, if any.