tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.comments2023-10-14T09:40:06.690-05:00 Jean KazezJean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger8117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-62481252881538052382018-02-09T15:53:56.362-06:002018-02-09T15:53:56.362-06:00I don't have the book, so I don't rememb...I don't have the book, so I don't remember exactly, but there is one or more long chapter on the anthropological evidence about ageing which probably is dated. Still, I found them fascinating as I did the chapter or chapters about ageing in Western history. In general, as I recall, the old are not treated well in traditional Western or non-Western societies, unless they are s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-84318784133926657552018-02-09T15:31:42.772-06:002018-02-09T15:31:42.772-06:00I bought Beauvoir's book about old age but did...I bought Beauvoir's book about old age but didn't get too far with it. It's dauntingly thick. Any suggestions about what part I should read? I've always meant to read The Mandarins too....Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-27517293451749000822018-02-09T14:00:51.304-06:002018-02-09T14:00:51.304-06:00Thanks.
I really liked Simone de Beauvoir's b...Thanks.<br /><br />I really liked Simone de Beauvoir's book on Ageing (I'm now 71, almost 72) and what Simone de Beauvoir said there rang very true for me and interpreted my own experience of getting old. <br /><br />In general, if I had to vote for one of them as being a 1st class thinker, I'd vote for Simone de Beauvoir over Martha Nussbaum. In fact, coincidentally, I s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-90840293674069227132017-12-12T17:10:15.129-06:002017-12-12T17:10:15.129-06:00Aeolus, I've been following that story closely...Aeolus, I've been following that story closely! <br /><br />https://www.prindlepost.org/2017/11/pronouns-provocateurs-free-speech-wilfrid-laurier-university/Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-7824812359499058302017-12-12T16:50:41.710-06:002017-12-12T16:50:41.710-06:00Aeolus,
"Giving a free pass to Hitler"....Aeolus,<br /><br />"Giving a free pass to Hitler".<br /><br />I lived for eleven years under a real dictatorship, that of Pinochet, and while it was clearly not as homicidal as that of Hitler, it was bad enough. No one who had ever spent a day in a real dictatorship, where people are disappeared, tortured in special torture centers, and assassinated walking down the street s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-31701207908628403232017-12-10T23:29:27.205-06:002017-12-10T23:29:27.205-06:00"It's not correct that there is such a th..."It's not correct that there is such a thing as biological sex," says a "historian of medicine" in a Canadian TV panel debate about personal pronouns and freedom of speech. <br />https://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/genders-rights-and-freedom-of-speech<br /><br />More recently, Lindsay Shephard, a TA at Wilfrid Laurier University, had the temerity toAeolushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15772583359516799143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-3667061604424961392017-11-25T12:47:26.733-06:002017-11-25T12:47:26.733-06:00Some things are more socially constructed than oth...Some things are more socially constructed than others. <br /><br />Let's take age. You can argue over whether at age 50 you're old or not.<br />I'm 71, and every day I show more signs of old age from chronic sciatica to<br />small memory losses to insomnia to walking more slowly. There's a woman who works in my apartment building in her early 80's, who swears thats. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-24214964835661018802017-11-17T13:01:35.096-06:002017-11-17T13:01:35.096-06:00I meant my point here a little more strongly than ...I meant my point here a little more strongly than that. Once you observe that race is merely a social convention with no empirical underpinning (a fact universally accepted by biologists in 2017), it gets easier to see how the other categories you invoke rely far more on social consensus than actual biology. The supposed biological substrate of race (e.g. pigment) is a red herring; we don’t thinkChris Schoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993906736813166617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-25753778758854550632017-11-17T09:58:14.919-06:002017-11-17T09:58:14.919-06:00Yes, age and sex seem more similar to each other, ...Yes, age and sex seem more similar to each other, and race possibly quite different. I'm thinking and reading about race and haven't made up my mind. Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-23848247328257567712017-11-16T23:50:58.743-06:002017-11-16T23:50:58.743-06:00If you're going to lead with "race" ...If you're going to lead with "race" as one of the major categories impacted by construction, it shouldn't disappear from your analysis entirely. Age has something of a biological component, as does (arguably) gender (though sex and gender are not identical, and the critical question is what sex really determines socially that originates in biology). The case for race is of Chris Schoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14993906736813166617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-80927434591325425402017-11-05T10:46:41.700-06:002017-11-05T10:46:41.700-06:00For most of my life gender identity depended on th...For most of my life gender identity depended on the genitals you were born with. That got changed to gender identity depending on your own psychological sense of gender identity. Fine. No problem.<br /><br />In the same way, your racial identity has depended on your skin color. Why can't that change to your racial identity depending on your psychological sense of racial identity?s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-50404502063032911752017-11-02T20:45:57.039-05:002017-11-02T20:45:57.039-05:00Hello Jean,
It's incredible that 60 years lat...Hello Jean,<br /><br />It's incredible that 60 years later in a Reform synagogue they are still talking about how Moses parted the Red Sea and chatted with the burning bush. I would have imagined that they would be emphasizing the ethical elements in Jewish culture and the great contributions that Jews have made to Western civilization: Spinoza, Marx, Freud, Einstein, Kafka, even s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-23199633130815665662017-11-02T20:27:01.824-05:002017-11-02T20:27:01.824-05:00Hi Amos, Thanks for listening! One of the problem...Hi Amos, Thanks for listening! One of the problems is that the teachers were not at all sophisticated about religion, so couldn't leave it ambiguous what kind of "truth" they were teaching. My kids' teacher was in fact a cake decorator by profession, as I recall. When I went and talked to the rabbi he was plenty sophisticated (and supportive), but that didn't get Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-51176222144880465662017-11-01T19:23:30.112-05:002017-11-01T19:23:30.112-05:00Great interview!
I can sympathize with your child...Great interview!<br /><br />I can sympathize with your childrens' experience in Jewish religious school<br /><br />I was sent to Jewish religious school in the 2nd grade. As you say, the teacher teaches Moses receiving the 10 commandments just as a history teacher in public school might teach the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<br /><br />I was thrown out numerous times for s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-63848068347398472522017-08-31T14:21:32.778-05:002017-08-31T14:21:32.778-05:00There seems to be difference between my obligation...There seems to be difference between my obligations towards a minor child and an adult child.<br /><br />I'm obliged towards a minor child whether they mess up their life or not. If they make stupid decisions or if they get into trouble with the law, I'm obliged to back them up. That seems to be true for my children until the age they leave the university, more or less. I may s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-70709573587443681462017-08-26T14:28:57.126-05:002017-08-26T14:28:57.126-05:00First of all, I hope that you are not in the are...First of all, I hope that you are not in the area of Texas affected by the storm.<br /><br />Thanks for the podcast interview.<br /><br />I don't agree with your claim that parents don't compete with their children. Some do, good parents don't. You speak of playing chess with a child and celebrating when they beat you. When I played chess with my son, Pablo, I made bad s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-34806611730335837492017-08-24T15:29:51.211-05:002017-08-24T15:29:51.211-05:00I took the quiz and I'm a philosophical parent...I took the quiz and I'm a philosophical parent. <br /><br />Actually, the answers that I had to pick to come out as a philosophical parent were fairly obvious. It wasn't like one of those philosophical quizzes that Jeremy Stangroom used to create where you get trapped in your own contradictions and end up feeling stupid. <br /><br />In any case, once you catch the philosophy s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-1993772773179972102017-08-22T02:24:14.205-05:002017-08-22T02:24:14.205-05:00This is really a thoughtful topic.
Tracking is a...This is really a thoughtful topic. <br /><br />Tracking is a good thing for safety. A child knows that his parents are just behind the internet wall. He will feel more comfortable. And as we see numerous headlines in newspapers about kidnapping and all other crimes.... tracking can really help us to be assure that everything is right. <br /><br />There are four important things to consider.<br />Vikas Dhavariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16104211458704979302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-26905659096555877792017-08-17T07:25:25.898-05:002017-08-17T07:25:25.898-05:00I remember Sandel a tad differently. He thinks we...I remember Sandel a tad differently. He thinks we generally ought to welcome talents and assets as gifts--whether in ourselves or in others. So it's not really a matter of the parental state of mind requiring this. That's the attitude we ought to bring to everything/everyone. Plus, the issue really is at the "enhancement" end for him--it's assets that we shouldn't Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-45166173485620590802017-08-17T07:20:25.947-05:002017-08-17T07:20:25.947-05:00The idea is that token genes are crucial to identi...The idea is that token genes are crucial to identity, not type genes. In other words, the actual DNA material is crucial, not the kind of material. Since twins have different token genes, they are different individuals.Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-6548175932069403492017-08-15T15:26:33.537-05:002017-08-15T15:26:33.537-05:00That sounds like Sandel's argument in The Case...That sounds like Sandel's argument in The Case against Perfection, that we just have to accept our children for what they are. But I'm not sure that receptiveness or acceptance of our children really entails that we shouldn't use GE, or that we should use it less. <br /><br />So the obvious counter argument is, you could be receptive/accepting of disabilities. The argument usually Wayne Yuennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-1923314250654959272017-08-14T23:15:16.373-05:002017-08-14T23:15:16.373-05:00If I and my identical twin are not "the same ...If I and my identical twin are not "the same person" then more than genes must be involved in defining identity. But if what determines my present identity includes all of my past experiences (and I think it does) then, for every experience I have had which might have been different, there is some alternative me whose existence has been prevented. Some may argue that some of these Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01113860495200481871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-12352589914222389082017-08-14T15:24:22.026-05:002017-08-14T15:24:22.026-05:00Seems like it's an important thing in a prospe...Seems like it's an important thing in a prospective parent that they're receptive to the child who happens to be born, instead of building a child of their dreams and working to get the child up to speed, as the child grows up. So if someone went really nuts with gene editing, it might be evidence of an undesirable, non-parent-like state of mind. So...a little choosiness might be Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-29040205388777725102017-08-14T15:18:14.630-05:002017-08-14T15:18:14.630-05:00What is in the worry of it's over use?What is in the worry of it's over use?Wayne yuennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-86533287916963479682017-08-14T10:04:55.293-05:002017-08-14T10:04:55.293-05:00Yes, good question about genes mutating. I also w...Yes, good question about genes mutating. I also wonder about gene therapy later in life. If you could alter an unwanted gene, would you really be turning yourself into a new person? I don't find it plausible that we have to have all of the same genes to continue on as the same people.Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06297159994901018071noreply@blogger.com