Reforming the Humanities
Literature and Ethics from Dante through Modern Times
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Open AccessAssociations among political voting preference, high-risk health status, and preventative behaviors for COVID-19
We investigate the relationships among political preferences, risk for COVID-19 complications, and complying with preventative behaviors, such as social distancing, quarantine, and vaccination, as they remain ...
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Open AccessAssessing equity in health, wealth, and civic engagement: a nationally representative survey, United States, 2020
The principle of equity is fundamental to many current debates about social issues and plays an important role in community and individual health. Traditional research has focused on singular dimensions of equ...
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Social Movements and Stakeholder Engagement
Social movements are among the most powerful sources of popular energy in our society. Scientists and health professionals should expect to see them burgeoning and sha** our understanding of medicine and pop...
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Reconsidering the Roots of Transformative Education: Habermas and Mezirow
Jack Mezirow acknowledged the deep influence of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas (1929–) on the development of transformative learning. We describe some fundamental elements of Mezirow’s and Habermas’ th...
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Deliberation as an Epistemic Network: A Method for Analyzing Discussion
Deliberations are discussions about what an institution, community, or nation should do, and are essential for maintaining a robust democracy. This study examined whether Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) can c...
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Why protect civil liberties during a pandemic?
During a public health emergency, a government must balance public welfare, equity, individual rights, and democratic processes and norms. These goods may conflict. Although science has a role in informing wis...
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Work, Play, and Civic Engagement
It has been common to make a three-way distinction: civic engagement/politics vs. work vs. play. When you’re on the job or having fun, you are not involved in politics or civic engagement. Harry Boyte and othe...
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A New Hull House? The Monumental Challenge of Service-Learning and Community Engagement
This book tells rich and moving stories about students who venture into the communities around their campuses, in places like Providence, Rhode Island; Bland County, Virginia; and Santa Cruz, California, to wo...
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The Story of Paolo and Francesca
Imagine reading the Inferno without any background information or historical commentary—without footnotes, glosses, or prior knowledge of the characters. In Canto V (translated in the Appendix), you would find Da...
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Introduction
This is a book about ethics and stories. Ethics (or morality) encompasses what is right or good, what we ought to do, and how laws and institutions should be organized. I argue that a good way to make ethical ...
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Poetry and the Emotions in Francesca’s Case
I have argued that Dante applied a moral theory to the story that he told in Canto V. Francesca’s case was a clear instance of adultery; and adultery was a voluntary act of immoral love. On this ground, Dante,...
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Good and Bad Stories, and Francesca as a Reader
Assuming that we use stories for moral guidance, it can be difficult to decide which ones to heed. Boccaccio’s narrative emphasizes Francesca’s fraudulent marriage contract; Dante’s stresses the moment at whic...
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Consequences
Modernism is a set of responses to a serious dilemma: the groundlessness of all artistic and intellectual traditions. Postmodernism is one of those responses. Nietzsche was already thoroughly postmodern in the...
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Dante Philosophizes About Francesca’s Case
C.H. Grandgent claimed that Dante’s portrait of Francesca was marked by “compassion, tenderness, sympathetic curiosity, [and] anguish.”1 The idea that Dante pitied Francesca still seemed so obvious to Lionel Tril...
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Criticizing Moral Theory
In the previous chapter, I argued that Dante’s suspicion of concrete, descriptive, narrative writing arose from specific philosophical doctrines. He distrusted emotions; he believed that tragedy was impossible...
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Modern Versions
Distinguishing between ethical and immoral cases of passionate love is one our most serious responsibilities. Unfortunately, making such distinctions will not be easy if we refuse to apply general principles a...
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Risk factors for discontinuing drug therapy among children with ADHD
Compliance with drug therapy is of major concern to clinicians as well as policy makers since uncontrolled symptoms due to noncompliance present health risks for patients and may lead to social costs. Noncompl...
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