hypocritexposer said:
OT, what are your feelings and thoughts on "intellectual alternatives to the philosophical morass of postmodern moral relativism."
When she attended a Phoenix Institute program in 2001, Christine O'Donnell was "a joy to have," her former tutor says. Bruce W. Griffin is speaking out on his former student, and says that O'Donnell would "add intellectual and philosophical depth" to the United States Senate should she win in November.
Griffin, an instructor and not a professor, wrote a detailed blog item saying that O'Donnell's thesis on cloning stood out in his mind as "one of the two best papers written for me that summer."
Griffin sent TPM his blog post detailing the three-week Phoenix Institute program focused on the "intellectual alternatives to the philosophical morass of postmodern moral relativism." Their text: C.S. Lewis' 1944 The Abolition of Man.
He said it was a summer job to do "a tutorial at Oxford on postmodernism and natural law."
"Christine O'Donnell was a joy to have in the tutorials: intelligent, engaged, dynamic, good with questions and interested in ideas" he wrote.
The course we did that summer in Oxford is nearly a decade old, but the basic issues we addressed are eternal. Today, too many of the Republic's leaders have abandoned the natural law tradition of the Declaration of Independence for a murky moral relativism--a relativism that is both destructive of democratic values and philosophically bankrupt.
Christine O'Donnell would bring to the US Senate a deepened commitment to the philosophical convictions of the Founding Fathers at a time when the philosophical bankruptcy of too many leaders is mirrored in the economic bankruptcy of the federal government. She would surely add intellectual and philosophical depth to a Senate that at this point in its history badly needs both.
http://presidentaristotle2010.blogspot.com/2010/09/christine-odonnell-at-oxford-some-notes.html
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Well since the Phoenix Institute sounds like a cross between a hippy commune, the hare krishna, the skull and bones club, and Tammy Faye Bakker-- this sounds like a course name some lay instructor would come up with to charge folks lots of money to attend while politically correctly saying they want to turn back the social enviromental clock 150 years...
Sounds like another good place for the rich kids to squander away their money- which doesn't surprise me O'Donnell was there..... :roll:
Yep-- the Tea Party folks got themselves a winner with this one....Probably dozens of old conservatives just spinning in their graves to hear someone like this even being spoke of in the same breath of true old conservatives.... :wink:

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