Spring 2013 Issue

Virtue over Victory

May 1, 2013 by William Eaton

Click here for downloadable PDF. Emphasizing Virtue over Victory Why We Should Adopt a Virtue Ethics Approach to Social Change By Jeffrey Allen Nall A graduate of Rollins College’s Master of Liberal Studies program, Jeffrey Allen Nall teaches philosophy at Indian River State College, Florida. Introduction As important as determining what is morally right or wrong, or how to address moral dilemmas, an important question is all too often overlooked: “Why should I make the often inconvenient effort to do […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2013 Issue • Tags: virtue ethics

On Being the Enemy

May 1, 2013 by William Eaton

Click here for dowloadable PDF. How Does It Feel To Be The Enemy? An Arab Mother’s Reflections on the Boston Tragedy By Lama Zuhair Khouri I am writing this essay as I sit on a bus heading back to New York from Boston. It is just few days after the Boston Marathon tragedy and my head is pounding with thoughts of those murdered and maimed, and the cries and wails of their loved ones feel almost audible. I came […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2013 Issue • Tags: Arab-Americans, Erich Fromm, love, W.E.B. Du Bois

Gauguin and Loti

May 1, 2013 by William Eaton

Click here for downloadable PDF. Oil Paintings of Word Paintings of Nature’s Paintings Gauguin’s Early Tahitian Canvases and Pierre Loti’s Le Mariage de Loti (The Marriage of Loti) By Richard M. Berrong Richard M. Berrong is a professor of French and director of the Master of Liberal Studies program at Kent State University. Art historians have long known that one of the things that led Paul Gauguin to go to Tahiti for the first time in 1891 was the […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2013 Issue • Tags: Gauguin

Queering Group Homes

May 1, 2013 by William Eaton

Click for PDF. “Community-Integrated” Housing for People with Developmental Disabilities Queer and Critical Disability Theories’ Contribution to Self-Determination By Jennifer Polish Jennifer Polish is a second semester student in the Master’s in Liberal Studies program at the CUNY Graduate Center, concentrating in the Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir track. Introduction[1] As debates about extending federal benefits to married same-gender couples rage across the country while marriage cases are processed by the Supreme Court, many other fights for individuals to control […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2013 Issue • Tags: bisexual, community housing, developmental disabilities, gay lives, heteronormativity, lesbian, LGBT, queer theory, transgender

Reviving Shylock

May 1, 2013 by Aaron Botwick

That Troublesome Jew Shylock and the Corruption of “The Merchant of Venice” By Aaron Botwick In 1947, the actor and playwright Maurice Schwartz rather audaciously rewrote The Merchant of Venice. The result, Shylock and His Daughter, is a radically philosemitic text, one that throws out most of Shakespeare’s play and replaces it with a kind, Jewish moneylender surrounded by antisemitic, unforgiving Christians.[1] Comic villain had become comic hero. But only five years after 1942—a date that, like 70 CE […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2013 Issue • Tags: anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Shakespeare, theater

Wittgenstein and Darwin’s Crab Soup

May 1, 2013 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] Do you know, is the crab soup vegetarian? And of what uses are words if their meanings are bent by their use? And could comic philosophy be our last best hope? By William Eaton It could be teasing to begin this way, but . . . The last few months I have been working now and again on an essay about sex and philosophy, and it has seemed to me that the word “pleasure,” if not […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2013 Issue • Tags: Darwin, evolution, Marx, meaning, Orwell, philosophy of language, Plato, vegetarianism, Wittgenstein

Welcome to the Spring 2013 Issue

May 1, 2013 by William Eaton

Zeteo believes in the generalist intellectual. S/he may be what Kant called a focus imaginarius, an idea lying outside the bounds of possible experience, but nonetheless helping us organize and extend our thinking. S/he—you?—is a person of insatiable curiosity, interested in subjects far beyond the fields in which s/he makes a living. A person who enjoys what Nabokov called the freedom of reading. Likely you are a writer, too—be it of blog posts, poetry, academic articles, case notes, devilishly creative […]

Categories: Spring 2013 Issue • Tags: Arab-Americans, community housing, Gauguin, virtue ethics, Wittgenstein