From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump
…y requires a toughness of mind and a dogged determination that allow us to bestow goodwill on people without discrimination. Furthermore, by intellectual charity, I also mean a generous attempt to understand and represent the perspectives of our opponents. Too often in public conversations, we listen to the opinions of others just long enough to create a caricature. The philosopher Iris Murdoch suggested that love is the “nonviolent apprehension o…
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