{"id":46,"date":"2018-12-08T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T18:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2019-04-08T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:32:10","slug":"analysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main\">\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<div id=\"content\" role=\"main\">\n<article id=\"post-177\" class=\"post-177 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"posttitle\">In this section, we shall consider what it means to think\u00a0<em>analytically<\/em>.\u00a0 But this, I mean breaking down a topic and then reconstructing it to provide a new perspectives on something.\u00a0 I am especially interested in\u00a0statements that\u00a0have this form:\u00a0 \u201cIf I think this\u2026., then this\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our goal in\u00a0reflecting on the\u00a0topics below will be to consider the relationship between our conceptions of Hell and human behavior.\u00a0\u00a0My basic proposition is that the way we define the world will have important\u00a0implications for how we should act.<\/p>\n<p>Consider these issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do we mean when we speak about the &#8220;human condition&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>What do we mean when we speak about &#8220;human nature&#8221;?\u00a0 Is human nature the same thing as the human condition?<\/li>\n<li>Does it matter whether there continue to be different conceptions of Hell in our society?<\/li>\n<li>How is our conception\u00a0of Hell related to our moral options?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>16. Thursday, March 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Today, I want to begin our discussion about the moral implications of our understanding of Hell by considering a topic that has come up frequently:\u00a0 the human condition.\u00a0 What do we mean by this abstract concept?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div>\n<p>To facilitate this discussion, I am asking you to read two of the most vivid chapters from Fyodr Dostoevsky\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Brother\u2019s Karamazov. \u00a0As you read the chapters, ask yourself: \u00a0what is Ivan Karamazov\u2019s \u201cargument\u201d about the human condition? \u00a0What do you make of his recommendations as expressed through the Grand Inquisitor?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An excerpt from Fyodr Dostoevsky,\u00a0<em>The Brothers Karam<\/em><em>azov<\/em> Ivan Karamazov\u2019s sobering thoughts on \u201cRebellion\u201d and the poem of the Grand Inquisitor: 236-263 (HAND-OUT); or find the entire book on this link, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/28054\/28054-pdf.pdf\">The Brothers Karamazov<\/a> PRINT AND READ pp. 296-332. ***<\/li>\n<li>\u201cChemical Attack in Syria\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/04\/world\/middleeast\/syria-gas-attack.html?_r=0\">READ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Science of Free Will:\u00a0 Can we change the human condition by exercising our Free Will? Do we even have Free Will?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Sapolsky says NO:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/jun\/09\/behave-by-robert-sapolsky-review\">READ<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Moshe Szyf and others say YES (or, perhaps, MAYBE): <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2006\/nov\/cover\">READ<\/a>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_240\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/04\/world\/middleeast\/syria-gas-attack.html?_r=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\"wp-image-240 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Spy-Booth-300x180.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Spy-Booth-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Spy-Booth-768x461.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Spy-Booth-1024x614.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Spy-Booth.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banksy, &#8220;Toll Booth&#8221;R<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*** <\/em>No self-respecting Notre Dame student should graduate without reading <em>The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>\u00a0in its entirety. The book will change the way you look at life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>IMAGE SIX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UTILITARIANISM:\u00a0 &#8220;HELL BY NUMBERS&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>18. Tuesday, March 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-177\" class=\"post-177 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><em>D<\/em><em>iscussion<\/em>:\u00a0 \u00a0Today, we will begin to discuss the moral implications of utilitarian judgments of human worth.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Peter Singer, \u201cTaking Life: Humans,\u201d from\u00a0<em>Practical Ethics\u00a0<\/em>(HAND-OUT)<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Johnson, \u201cUnspeakable Conversations\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nd.edu\/~amcadams\/Hell2009\/OnSinger-1.html\">PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCatholic Social Teaching and the Dignity of the Human Person\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/what-is-catholic-social-teaching\">PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For this discussion, I recommend that you surf around for a very general understanding of the philosophical approach known as \u201cutilitarianism.&#8221; You do not need to learn about the different forms or schools of utilitarianism.\u00a0 Singer&#8217;s work a lot will give you a good sense of this philosophical approach.<\/p>\n<p>As you read Singer\u2019s work, consider an alternative perspective on human worth that is reflected in the passage from Jacques Maritain below. \u00a0Maritain was one of the greatest Catholic philosophers of the twentieth century and the intellectual father of Vatican II:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u201cLet us think of the human being, not in an abstract and general way,\u00a0but in the most concrete possible, the most\u00a0<em>personal\u00a0<\/em>fashion.\u00a0 Let us\u00a0think of this certain old man we have known for years in the country\u2014this old farmer with his wrinkled face, his keen eyes which have beheld\u00a0so many harvests and so many earthly horizons, his long habits of\u00a0patience and suffering, courage, poverty and noble labor, a man perhaps\u00a0like those parents of a great living American statesman whose\u00a0photographs appeared some months ago in a particularly moving copy\u00a0of a weekly magazine. Or let us of think of this certain boy or this girl\u00a0who are our relatives or our friends, whose everyday life we well know,\u00a0and whose loved appearance, whose soft or husky voice is enough to\u00a0rejoice our hearts \u00a0. . . . We perceive intuitively, in an indescribable not inescapable flash, that nothing in the world is more precious than\u00a0one single human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u2014Jacques Maritain, \u201cThe Immortality of Man\u201d (1941)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoving Donation\u201d:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lovingdonation.com\/\">BROWSE THROUGH ALL OF THE PAGES ON THIS SITE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s Design Better Babies: <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/images-of-hell\/designer-babies\/\">READ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMary had a little lamb\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nd.edu\/~amcadams\/Hell2009\/Maryclone.doc\">RECITE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n19. Thursday, March 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NO CLASS<\/p>\n<p>I will be in Lublin, Poland.\u00a0 The Catholic University of Poland is awarding me an honorary doctorate.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n20. Tuesday, April 2<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>The Second Great Debate!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWhen it comes to human dignity, Singer is far more humane than the Roman Catholic Church&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Relevant sections of the Vatican&#8217;s &#8220;Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/compendium-of-the-social-doctrine-of-the-church\/\">PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Your second writing assignment is <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/second-essay-assignment\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_238\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Banksy_Monet-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Banksy_Monet-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Banksy_Monet-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Banksy_Monet.jpg 557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banksy, &#8220;Monet&#8217;s Garden&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>IMAGE SEVEN<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>PRONOUNCEMENTS AND THREATS:\u00a0 \u201cGO TO HELL!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>21. Thursday, April 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this section, I want to explore the connection between our understanding of hell and moral behavior. \u00a0I am interested in addressing two questions: \u00a01) Can we be good without Hell (i.e., \u00a0Do we need to believe in Hell to maintain a civilized society?)? \u00a02) Or will belief in Hell lead us to worse behavior?<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for this discussion, please think about this question: \u00a0 On what basis does humanity learn to do the \u201cright\u00a0 thing\u201d?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jerry Walls: \u201cCan we be Good without Hell?\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nd.edu\/~amcadams\/Hell2012\/Walls.html\">PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Speech:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nd.edu\/~amcadams\/Hell2010\/Wieselnobelspeech.html\">PRINT AND RE-READ<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bishop John Henry Spong, \u201cHell is an invention of the church\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SF6I5VSZVqc\">WATCH AND TAKE NOTES<\/a><\/li>\n<li>On religion in general: \u00a0Richard\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/20\/books\/20dawkins.html?ref=richard_dawkins\">Dawkins<\/a>, \u201cReligion\u2019s real child abuse\u201d (handout)<\/li>\n<li>Belief in Hell and Criminality:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uonews.uoregon.edu\/archive\/news-release\/2012\/6\/belief-hell-according-international-data-associated-reduced-crime\">\u00a0READ<\/a>.\u00a0 For background on this fascinating research:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sharifflab.com\/\">SCAN<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our Values Survey: An assessment of your findings about your personal beliefs (please bring your copy of the Values Survey to class)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n22.\u00a0 Tuesday, April 9<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Music from Hell<\/em>:\u00a0 It\u2019s no surprise that there is a direct relationship between what musicians (and other artists) have to say about Hell and how they expect people to act.\u00a0 How\u00a0 many songs in the following genres invoke the concept of Hell?:\u00a0 Metal, punk, heavy rock, existential rock, grunge, rap, the blues.\u00a0 Comparatively speaking, how many invoke\u00a0 the concept\u00a0 of heaven?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PRINT AND READ<\/strong>:\u00a0 Compare John Lennon\u2018s lyrics in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nd.edu\/~amcadams\/Hell2009\/Imagine.doc\">Imagine<\/a>\u201d with Kurt Cobain\u2019s lyrics in \u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/nd.edu\/~amcadams\/Hell2009\/LakeofFire.doc\">Lake of Fire<\/a>\u201c<\/li>\n<li><strong>LISTEN<\/strong>: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WB0vN1qGKCU&amp;feature=related\">Imagine<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x1ehdg_nirvana-lake-of-fire_family\">Lake of Fire<\/a>\u201c<\/li>\n<li><em>The People\u2019s Choices<\/em>:\u00a0\u00a0 Your nominations will be HERE when you post them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For today\u2019s discussion, please bring 19 copies of the lyrics of a song which, in your view, best captures both the meaning of Hell and its implications. \u00a0All musical genres are acceptable. Nothing is forbidden. I am not afraid of words.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<div id=\"content\" role=\"main\">\n<article id=\"post-205\" class=\"post-205 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><br \/>\nIMAGE EIGHT<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>POVERTY:\u00a0 \u201cPOOR AS HELL\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ROMANS 15:1 \u201cWe who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-239\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Banksy-art-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Banksy-art-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/files\/2018\/12\/Banksy-art.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>23.\u00a0 Thursday, April 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Discussion:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>J. D. Vance, <em>Hillbilly Elegy\u00a0 <\/em>Read at least the first half of the book.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-205\" class=\"post-205 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"post-17439\" class=\"article\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"post-17439\" class=\"article\">\n<p class=\"art-whowhen\">Compare Vance&#8217;s argument with Sarah Smarsh, &#8220;Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About \u2018Trump Country&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/liberal-blind-spots-are-hiding-the-truth-about-trump-country\/\">PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A review of Robert Putnam,\u00a0<em>Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/taking-on-the-opportunity-gap-our-kids-robert-putnam-book-review\/\">PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\" role=\"main\">\n<article id=\"post-205\" class=\"post-205 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>24.\u00a0 Tuesday, April 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Discussion<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>J. D. Vance, <em>Hillbilly Elegy\u00a0<\/em> Finish\u00a0the book.<\/p>\n<p>1. Trump and the the American Poor<\/p>\n<p>Ken Stern, &#8220;Inside How Trump Won the White Working Class&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/inside-how-trump-won-the-white-working-class\/\">PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Robert Merry, &#8220;Trump\u2019s Working Class, Conservative, Populist Realignment,&#8221;\u00a0<em>The American Conservative<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/trumps-working-class-conservative-populist-realignment\/\">PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2. Roman Catholicism and the American poor?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><\/div>\n<div>One of the founders of &#8220;liberation theology,&#8221; Leonardo Boff:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kosmosjournal.org\/news\/interview-leonardo-boff-a-founder-of-liberation-theology\/\">PRINT AND READ<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3. Pete Buttigieg on the poor:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\u201cWhen I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works. And what we have now is this exaltation of wealth and power, almost for its own sake, that in my reading of Scripture couldn\u2019t be more contrary to the message of Christianity. So I think it\u2019s really important to carry a message (to the public), knitting together a lot of groups that have already been on this path for some time, but giving them more visibility in the public sphere.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<div id=\"content\" role=\"main\">\n<article id=\"post-177\" class=\"post-177 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Please leave your technology at home. This includes electronic devices of any kind, such as laptops, i-Pads, cell phones, Kindles, x-Boxes,\u00a0clouds, video cameras, or other personal digital devices<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"edit-link\"><a class=\"post-edit-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/images-of-hell\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=177&amp;action=edit\">Edit<\/a><\/span><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"comments\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this section, we shall consider what it means to think\u00a0analytically.\u00a0 But this, I mean breaking down a topic and then reconstructing it to provide a new perspectives on something.\u00a0 I am especially interested in\u00a0statements that\u00a0have this form:\u00a0 \u201cIf I think this\u2026., then this\u2026..\u201d Our goal in\u00a0reflecting on the\u00a0topics below will be to consider the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/hell-spring2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}