by Samuel Hux (September 2015)
So says historian John Lukacs—and he’s right. Same with prejudices, say I. Racial prejudices I specifically mean, which do after all qualify as “ideas,” whether held by the KKK or a Baltimore street thug—a subject central to a work-in-progress, a kind of philosophical memoir on the subject of race (“the obsession that will not shut its mouth,” I call it), of which this essay is an excerpt. more>>>
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Good get Sam. Erasmus and Luther are having hot flashes of deja vu. Seems we invoke choice to defend the obscene. Organ harvest abortions come to mind. But drunks and junkies are thought to be bereft off free will, compelled to do what they do by chemistry or alchemy. Alas the great challenges facing men and nations require moral not scientific solutions. Choice is the hinge upon which the future of civilization swings.
I haven rarely read a philosophical essay so humanly written as this one by Prof. Samuel Hux. His account of early life in the military forces is so graphic; his concluding philosophical reflections sum up the erudition of past thinkers so clearly. What ideas and attitudes we have and act on are ultimately a matter of personal choice. We take personal responsibility. This is the wisdom of the ages.