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Cruelty, Liberalism, and Liberal Education

Cruelty, Liberalism, and Liberal Education Ann Hartle Evil has many forms. All of the vices, for example, would longer accepted by many people. Therefore, the "shared ideal count as evil: drunkenness and wrath, although very different sanctified by the church" no longer has any authority and people from each other, are both vices and therefore both evil. Crimes, "are freer than ever before to choose what they believe and how too, are all evil insofar as they harm others, whether to a greater they live their lives" (109). or lesser degree. Yet we do rank vices and crimes, and we tend to The freedom that is characteristic of modern life leads, in many use the term `evil' to refer to vices, crimes, and immoral actions cases, to an absence of direction in one's life and to an inability to that are of a certain kind, that have a certain quality. John Kekes distinguish between important and unimportant in one's choices. has identified this particular quality and given a profoundly per"All evaluations appear arbitrary because the ground on which ceptive account of it in his chapter on "Disenchantment with they were based has disappeared" (110). Kekes describes the disOrdinary Life." He concludes that chapter http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Good Society Penn State University Press

Cruelty, Liberalism, and Liberal Education

The Good Society , Volume 15 (2) – May 21, 2006
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Ann Hartle Evil has many forms. All of the vices, for example, would longer accepted by many people. Therefore, the "shared ideal count as evil: drunkenness and wrath, although very different sanctified by the church" no longer has any authority and people from each other, are both vices and therefore both evil. Crimes, "are freer than ever before to choose what they believe and how too, are all evil insofar as they harm others, whether to a greater they live their lives" (109). or lesser degree. Yet we do rank vices and crimes, and we tend to The freedom that is characteristic of modern life leads, in many use the term `evil' to refer to vices, crimes, and immoral actions cases, to an absence of direction in one's life and to an inability to that are of a certain kind, that have a certain quality. John Kekes distinguish between important and unimportant in one's choices. has identified this particular quality and given a profoundly per"All evaluations appear arbitrary because the ground on which ceptive account of it in his chapter on "Disenchantment with they were based has disappeared" (110). Kekes describes the disOrdinary Life." He concludes that chapter

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