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Semantics

“So what are we really talking about when we talk about natural? It depends…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 May 2015
So what are we really talking about when we talk about natural? It depends;...
Tagged Definition, Semantics, Terminology, Words |
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“…if nature offers a moral standard by which we can measure ourselves, and a set of values to which we should aspire, exactly what sort of values are they?”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 May 2015
Implicit here is the idea that nature is a repository of abiding moral and...
Tagged morality, nature |
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“Once you designate some spaces as safe, you imply that the rest are unsafe”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 May 2015
Some people trace safe spaces back to the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1960s...
Tagged Discourse, safe spaces |
Semantics

“…the term “whore” does not necessarily have to be misogynist, but it was in the context…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 May 2015
I should not have just called a whore. She’s a loathsome and awful...
Tagged Semantics, Terminology, Whore |
Israel, Jewish Community, Rabbis

“A genuine, spiritually and theologically grounded, rabbinic voice is missing from the American Jewish community’s Israel conversation”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 May 2015
Rabbinic talk is not political talk. Political does not mean partisan. Political talk focuses...
Tagged American Jewish Discourse, Israel |
Israel

“There is a fine line…between legitimate criticism, which is what Israel deserves, and illegitimate criticism”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 May 2015
The 20th century produced many international conflicts that were clear-cut, black-and-white, good-and-evil. … The...
Tagged Israel |
Semantics

“…when the orders are reworded to say “allow natural death,” patients and family members and even medical professionals are much more likely to give their consent…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 May 2015
It seems that getting end-of-life patients and their families to endorse “do not resuscitate”...
Tagged Death, Natural, Semantics |
Clothing

“One point of beat-up bluejeans is to bother good taste, which is a muscular aesthetic stance, a canny market footing and an ambiguous moral position”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 May 2015
One point of beat-up bluejeans is to bother good taste, which is a muscular...
Tagged Blue jeans, clothing, pants |
Races in America

“Such street culture is simply the black urban version of one of America’s most iconic traditions: the Wild West”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 May 2015
In all inner-city neighborhoods, however, there is a problem minority that varies between about...
Tagged Race, races in America |
Israel

“…the whole proposition of nakba is problematic insofar as it sets up Israel’s creation as a zero-sum game”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 May 2015
…the whole proposition of nakba is problematic insofar as it sets up Israel’s creation...
Tagged Israel, nakba |
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