...Williams’s vision of toleration did not insist on carefully policing speech to avoid disquiet. Like Luther, Williams held that aggressive evangelism entailed offensive speech, or what Luther had described as...
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by Benjamin Hertzberg
Mere Civility and Jeremiah Wright
...view their fellows with sincere respect. Williams was not so sanguine: Sectarianism will lead to mutual insult. For Williams, his religion demanded such: the evangelist must condemn sin. But it...
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by Murad Idris
Power and civility
...Roger Williams, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke will be of great interest to historians of political thought, democratic theorists, and those interested in (or troubled by) today’s civility talk. With...
Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics 
by Anand Vivek Taneja
On intellectual hospitality and the plenitude of time: A response to Bardawil
by Anand Vivek Taneja
...As Fadi Bardawil notes in his perceptive essay on The Arabic Freud, in the dominant academic readings of the encounter of the reified “West” with colonized societies such as Egypt,...
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by Jimmy Casas Klausen
Sex & aggression
...a humanist ideal rather than a transcendent, divine one. Neo-Nietzscheans, on Taylor’s account, embrace human wildness as a necessary consequence of affirming the superabundance of life in the will to...
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by Daniel Vaca
Rowan Williams and Karl Marx
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, responds to the financial crisis in the Spectator: Marx long ago observed the way in which unbridled capitalism became a kind of mythology, ascribing...
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by Ruth Marshall
How to do things in with words
...paid to attempts to find in Williams a neo-Kantian secular liberal à la Nussbaum, while her twenty first-century “rehabilitation” does not provide the grounds for endorsing the excesses of Williams’s...
Science and the soul: New inquiries into Islamic ethics
by Omnia El Shakry
Translation, tradition, and the ethical turn: A reply to Bardawil and Allan
by Omnia El Shakry
...Michael Allan and Fadi Bardawil remark, models the ethos and practice of translation through its method. Here, the work of translation is “not mired in a question of translational directionality,”...