Linked with Serve Afghanistan, and with UK charity worker killed in Kabul. Continuer la lecture de « Gayle Williams – South Africa and UK (1974 – 2008) »
Mois : octobre 2008
Sister Emmanuelle – Belgium and France (1908 – 2008)
Terry Greenblatt – USA
Elise Marie Biorn-Hansen Boulding – USA
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre – England
Linked with Alasdair MacIntyre and Holistic Marxism, and with The Shock Doctrine.
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (born January 12, 1929 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology. He is the O’Brien Senior Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Indiana) … (full long text). Biography. Philosophical method. Virtue ethics. Politics. Religion.
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most controversial philosophers and social theorists of our time. He opposes liberalism and postmodernism with the teleological arguments of an updated Thomistic Aristotelianism. It is this tradition, he claims, which presents the best theory so far about the nature of rationality, morality and politics … (full text).
He says: « »A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones » (on quotes/quotationsbook).
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Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre – England
International Society for MacIntyrean Philosophy: Revolutionary Aristotelianism, Thomism, Virtue Theory, Social Theory, and Politics.
When we talk about « Justice » or « reason » we assume that people know what we mean. This is not always true, of course, because we have differing concepts of justice and rationality, which MacIntyre skillfully lays out in this book. This is not so much a sequel to After Virtue as much as it is a Prequel. MacIntyre has a very easy to read style, which is helpful, because the concepts he tackles are very complicated. (LibraryThing).
The MacIntyre Reader, Edited by: KELVIN KNIGHT (London Metropolitan University).
Find him and his publications on wikipedia: selected works, and secondary literature; on amazon; on LibraryThing; on Google Book-search; on Google Scholar-search.
He says also: « The hypothesis I wish to advance is that … the language of morality is in … grave disorder…. What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have—very largely if not entirely—lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality ». On Quotes.
Continuer la lecture de « Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre – England »
Ellen Barry – USA
Candi Smucker – USA
Kate Donnelly – USA
Barbara Lee – USA
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Continuer la lecture de « Barbara Lee – USA »
Roselle Bailey – USA /Hawai
Linked with Ka ‘Imi Na ‘auao O Hawai’i Nei.
She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
Roselle Bailey’s life work is to teach and preserve Hawai’ian culture. She served as caretaker of one of the most significant sites to hula practitioners and helped to launch the Ka Ipu Kukui leadership training program at Maui Community College. Roselle also founded the halau Ka ‘Imi Na ‘auao o Hawai’i Nei, whose goal is both to maintain traditional Hawai’ian culture and traditions and to heal ethnic and cultural divisions among Hawai’ians and between people of all cultures. (1000peacewomen).
She says: « Not until we lived in Iraq did I begin to take hula and my heritage seriously. It was then that I began to have dreams of home and the Hawai’ian language. It redirected my life–or did it ».
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Roselle Bailey – USA
She works for Ka ‘Imi Na ‘auao O Hawai’i Nei.
… After growing up in Hawaii blessed with a strong Hula influence in her everyday life, for several years Roselle, her husband Jim and their two daughters, Sharon and Pohakalani, lived in the Middle East and then traveled through Europe, where she continued to teach and perform Hula … (full text).
In “The Hula Lesson” we join Hawaiian Hula teacher Roselle Bailey and her halau of multicultural women to find out what hula is, what it means to Hawaii, and why so many non-Hawaiians love it.
… Roselle Bailey, who was raised in Lahaina, is concerned that “developments are being proposed on ag land, when those lands are needed for sustainable agriculture” … (full text).
… Roselle Bailey testified in support of Ka‘anapali 2020 being placed within UGB. “No Ka‘anapali 2020 is a slap in the face for not being placed on the map. Listen to the people, not just what you think,” she said … (full text).
On 21 JULY, 2007, Kaua`i Museum honored its 2007 Kaua`i Living Treasures, among them was Roselle Bailey. Every two or three years, the Museum bestows this title on a small group of people whose service to the community and its culture has been outstanding. Past honorees have included archaeologist Pila Kikuchi, scholar Frances Frazier, musician Jose Bulatao, weaver Esther Makuaole and leimaker Irmalee Pomroy. Roselle came to Kaua`i on 19 May for a photo shoot at the Museum. Ever exuberant Tim Delavega took the pictures, while we took pictures of him taking pictures … (full text).