belief system
I.
"Feminist theory suggests alternative conceptions...Feminist theory suggests that we can achieve identity of interest on the real-life side of the veil. In that world, people would not be moved solely by self-interst, but also by feelings of love, intimacy, and care for others. They would be in a perpetual state of mutual concern. Rawls begins to consider this possibility when he discusses families and social unions, but his dominant idea is that it is personally advantageous for individuals to join social unions. Feminist experience suggests there is something beyond personal advantage - a collectivist way of thinking that presumes it natural, joyful, and easy to care for others. There is an element of self-interest to this proposition, but it is not a dismal struggle for individual advantage within the merely convenient context of social union that Rawls proposes.
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This leads to another counterassumption, one that challenges Rawls' stern view of what feels good. Achievement, carrying out a plan, excellence feel good to him. Feminist thought, derived through consciousness raising, considers the possibility that humor, modesty, conversation, spontaneity, laziness, and enjoying the talents and differences of others also feel good. Because Rawls imposes a limited viewof what feels good upon the deliberators in the original position, they adopt a limited formula for redistribution. This ignores the possibility that we can take collective pleasure in knowing that there is some rare and fine advantage that only a few can have, and that we can all celebrate when those few are chosen."
- "Liberal Jurisprudence and Abstracted Visions of Human Nature: A Feminist Critique of Rawls' Theory of Justice" Mari J. Matsuda
II.
"Given such moments, Au revoir les enfants - for all its tragic subject matter and its elegiac finale - is anything but depressing. In the last scene, as the three Jewish boys and Pere Jean are led away to their deaths, Jean Bonnet glances back and Julien (a.k.a. the young Louis Malle) raises his hand in timid salute. In that small affirmative gesture can be read a promise, which this film, with its emotional commitment, its richness of incidental detail, and the warmth and lucidity of its regard, forty years later duly fulfilled."
- "Childhood's End" Philip Kemp
III.
"The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good."
- We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, Philip Gourevitch
"Feminist theory suggests alternative conceptions...Feminist theory suggests that we can achieve identity of interest on the real-life side of the veil. In that world, people would not be moved solely by self-interst, but also by feelings of love, intimacy, and care for others. They would be in a perpetual state of mutual concern. Rawls begins to consider this possibility when he discusses families and social unions, but his dominant idea is that it is personally advantageous for individuals to join social unions. Feminist experience suggests there is something beyond personal advantage - a collectivist way of thinking that presumes it natural, joyful, and easy to care for others. There is an element of self-interest to this proposition, but it is not a dismal struggle for individual advantage within the merely convenient context of social union that Rawls proposes.
[...]
This leads to another counterassumption, one that challenges Rawls' stern view of what feels good. Achievement, carrying out a plan, excellence feel good to him. Feminist thought, derived through consciousness raising, considers the possibility that humor, modesty, conversation, spontaneity, laziness, and enjoying the talents and differences of others also feel good. Because Rawls imposes a limited viewof what feels good upon the deliberators in the original position, they adopt a limited formula for redistribution. This ignores the possibility that we can take collective pleasure in knowing that there is some rare and fine advantage that only a few can have, and that we can all celebrate when those few are chosen."
- "Liberal Jurisprudence and Abstracted Visions of Human Nature: A Feminist Critique of Rawls' Theory of Justice" Mari J. Matsuda
II.
"Given such moments, Au revoir les enfants - for all its tragic subject matter and its elegiac finale - is anything but depressing. In the last scene, as the three Jewish boys and Pere Jean are led away to their deaths, Jean Bonnet glances back and Julien (a.k.a. the young Louis Malle) raises his hand in timid salute. In that small affirmative gesture can be read a promise, which this film, with its emotional commitment, its richness of incidental detail, and the warmth and lucidity of its regard, forty years later duly fulfilled."
- "Childhood's End" Philip Kemp
III.
"The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good."
- We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, Philip Gourevitch