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Article: Anachronism of the moral sentiments? Integrity, postmodernism, and justice.
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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After all, what is self-restraint but hypocrisy? If you despise Jews the most honest thing is to burn them up. And the fact that it costs money, and uses up trains and personnel--this only guarantees the integrity, the purity, the existence of their feelings. They would even tell you that only a Jew would think of the cost.(1)
This is an article about the relationship between postmodernism and justice. My topic is the apparent disjunction between postmodernists' moral and political intuitions on the one hand and their philosophical views and cultural leanings on the other. Crudely put, the article asks what we can learn from the fact that someone who rejects the ...