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In Baudrillard's view, the current paradigm of antagonism is no longer conducive to a further history with further conflicts. Instead, antagonism today leads to absolutes of order and peace (p.17). The purpose of conflict is no longer war as such, but rather a sense of duty towards an ideal that is not related to war as such. Instead, it is a type of policing.
America, being the dominant world force, also views it as its task to keep order or wage war in the name of its ideals. As such, duty is at the heart of both war and peace. These paradigms, according to the author, have become indistinct, crushed not only beneath the weight of duty, but also beneath that of the superpower and its technologies. Lives, innocence and guilt have become irrelevant in the light of duty and ideal. War is no longer fought on the basis of who is morally correct, but rather on the basis of technology, destruction, and domination.
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The terrible irony is that, in contrast to all other wars to date, the war spawned by America's super-domination of the world has at its core its own destruction.
Such destruction occurs not only at the hands of the antagonist, but also from within the very nature of the dominator.
According to Baudrillard, cultures that dominate and assimilate others hold within this very paradigm its own death. By assimilating, the values and ideals of the specific culture begin to dominate globally and become meaningless by similarity. As such, terrorism and assimilation conspire against the domination of the world super power. The more powerful the United States becomes, the closer it comes to its annihilation, both from within itself and at the hands of the antagonist via terrorism.
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EDSE 600: History and Philosophy of Education / / 3.0 credits The class entitled, History and Philosophy of Education, focused on the origin of education and the "philosophical influences of modern educational theory and practice. Study of: philosophical developments in the Renaissance, Reformation, and revolutionary periods; social, cultural and ideological forces which have shaped educational policies in the United States; current debates on meeting the wide range of educational and social-emotional
The Jews, of course, were as antagonistic to hearing Stephen preach the life of Christ as they were to Christ Himself -- Who is the way of salvation, and Whom they have rejected. Stephen's speech is fiery and full of love and fury -- love for Christ, fury for the Jews who rejected Him: "You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised." (Here Stephen as much as
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He also did not consider that the attribution of goodness or perfection was not exclusive to early nobles, the Roman warrior, the Greek artist or the Jewish priest who trusted in a Messiah. Common people and slaves always held their own beliefs in what is true and good and by their own ethical codes, believed that observing them would justify their actions and choices. What went into historical records
When she died in Toronto, after having a stroke while playing cards, her last words were "Goddamn it, why did you lead that?" (Falk 315). Until the end, she was strong, feisty and a true role model for all humans who strongly believe in and want to promote a cause. In Goldman's biography, Falk clearly recognizes that Goldman is no saint or a Gandhi, and will never be remembered as