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The Pursuit of Thoughtfulness

August 26, 2019
Sarah Beth Kitch

Socrates recognizes the capacity for dialogue with oneself—or, thoughtfulness—as essential for democratic citizenship.  George Orwell, in his essay “Politics and the English Language,” also explores the relationship between thought and language: “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”  Together, Orwell and Socrates invite readers today to consider thoughtfulness, rooted in robust ethical language, […]

Shame and Politics

April 30, 2019
Sarah Beth Kitch

If our goal as Americans is to create a politics fit for persons, we need to cultivate the kind of shame that warns us against the use of persons as means to our own ends.  Shame, as it appears in common discourse, means “feeling badly about oneself.”  Here, however, I’m interested in shame understood as […]

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