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Category Archives: Moral engagement
Vaclav Havel, crusader against tyranny
Yesterday, December 18, 2011, saw the passing of Václav Havel, an exemplar of moral engagement. Havel was a playwright and poet who became the leader of the opposition to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia starting in the 1960s. He helped launch … Continue reading
Posted in Champions of peace, Moral engagement, Poetry and the arts, Protest
Tagged Communist, Czechoslovakia, democracy, Jeremy Irons, Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, moral agency, moral engagement, Nelson Mandela, nonviolence, Occupy movement, playwright, poet, Prague, Rock n' Roll, The Power of the Powerless, Tom Stoppard, Vaclav Havel, Velvet Revolution
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Women anti-warriors: Fighting war with poetry
Moral engagement depends on moral agency—both inhibitive moral agency (refusing to let others push one into immoral behavior) and proactive… Continue reading
Posted in Moral engagement, Poetry and the arts
Tagged anti-war poetry, compassion, Denise Levertov, empathy, inhibitive moral agency, Julia Ward Howe, Marge Piercy, moral engagement, Mother's Day Proclamation, peace, proactive moral agency, Suheir Hammed, The low road, Vietnam War, What I will
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Raise a roar
Posted in Moral disengagement, Moral engagement, Poetry and the arts
Tagged advantageoo, Civil War, David Connolly, Dulce et Decorum Est, Emily Dickinson, euphemistic language, hatred, justice, love, minimizing consequences, moral disengagement, moral engagement, peace, poetry, realistic language, San'aa Sultan, Vietnam War, violence, war, Wilfred Owen
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