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Touching the Memory

September 7, 2014 by William Eaton

My father usually invited an oirech (a poor person) from among those who had lined up at the door of the Beit HaMidrash to join us for [a Sabbath] meal. These were itinerant beggars, of whom there were, unfortunately, many in Poland. I was fascinated by these vagabonds who lived at the margin of our society, and their presence at our table added excitement and mystery to the celebration. This from a memoir by the former rabbi and director of […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: anti-Semitism, ethics, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, religion

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Bonobos

What Is Permitted—To People and Bonobos

August 18, 2014 by Walter Cummins

The Sources of Morality By Walter Cummins Review of The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans de Waal (W. W. Norton, 2013) [print_link] [email_link]   Primatologist Frans de Waal in his book The Atheist and the Bonobo (W. W. Norton, 2013) uses bonobos to take on God, or more precisely those people who are convinced moral standards would not exist without the authority of a Supreme Being. From that perspective, morality is an attribute limited to the human realm, essential to our unique and special […]

Categories: Review • Tags: animals, ethics, literature, philosophy

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Consumed with crowdfunding

August 1, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

I have read a few things this week that pertain to what is actually happening in the world.  You know the whole on going crisis in the Middle East, the Ebola crisis… those slightly larger issues (please note my tone here which is sarcastic in nature and may not come through online)… but I have been consumed with this fundraising campaign and a few issues I’ve had getting it up and running with the Indiegogo platform which is partnered with […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: ethics, film

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Sartre’s Partridges

June 22, 2014 by William Eaton

{click for pdf}   An e-mail discussion with the philosopher and Zeteo contributor Ed Mooney has led me back to two paragraphs in Sartre’s L’Être et le néant (Being and Nothingness). One of the oft-quoted (in English) lines from these paragraphs is “my acts cause values to spring up like partridges,” and I harbor hopes of someday grappling, in a short essay or two, with an extrapolation of this line. Very briefly here, this extrapolation would revisit the role of skepticism, […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: ethics, freedom, Jean-Paul Sartre, morals, translation, values

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Young and Old: The Odd Sides of the Sandwich Generation

April 7, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Scholars have a name for the twentieth-first century adults that get caught up in the care of their elderly parents and younger kids. They call it the “Sandwich Generation.” Claude Berri’s film The Two of Us (1967) offers a tender portrait of the sides of this group. Claude, an 8-year-old Jewish boy, and Pepe, an old anti-Semitic veteran, are temporarily pushed out of the lives of working adults and forced to live together. Initially, the odd couple seems to belong […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: children, education, ethics, film, French, movies, sociology

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Teach children the capacity of happiness, not its obsession

March 24, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

I was recently given a copy of two sections of Adam Phillips’s On Balance. The first of these, entitled “Should school make you happy?,” raises an issue worth exploring these days. If we take happiness as a moral demand (“You have to be happy and you are failing if you are not”) then what do we do with our unhappiness? Non-happy moments are not only unavoidable, but also essential in everyone’s life. At risk of sounding redundant, it’s important to observe that non-happy […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: children, education, ethics, philosophy, reading

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Empathy

March 14, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

Today I read The New Yorker article where Peter Lanzing shares his story with journalist Andrew Solomon, The Reckoning. It reminded me of a similar piece I read years after the Columbine killings where one of the mothers of the perpetrators recounted her struggles – and I couldn’t help but think of the Lynne Ramsey movie We Need to Talk About Kevin. There is no question that the grief of the victims in mass killings is justified but the parents of those who […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: ethics, film, New Yorker

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The “P” Word: mediated pornography (IV)

February 17, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

When Margaret Grebowicz writes about the body, she usually means the female body. The body is the main site where pornography and life happen. It is the private place where we make decisions and plan on asserting who we are. But it is also the public space that limits how others see us. In one of the last chapters of Why Internet Porn Matters, Grebowicz offers a beautiful account of the value of the body as a private and public site. Her analysis […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: ethics, identity, philosophy, politics, pornography, sexuality

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Henrietta Lacks (re The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)

Consent and Money

November 19, 2013 by William Eaton

A dialogue on the ethical dilemmas in the reporting and writing of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Sue Ellen Christian and Ann Miles Sue Ellen Christian is an associate professor of journalism at Western Michigan University. Her book, Overcoming Bias: A Journalist’s Guide to Culture and Context was published in 2012 by Holcomb Hathaway. Ann Miles, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist. She is the author of From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration and Living […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: anthropology, ethics, Henrietta Lacks, journalism

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