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Most of us have been deeply shaped by the false notion that in order for people to behave better they need to feel worse and be punished. In practice, we see that humans are, in fact, far more likely to change in desirable ways when they are more resourced, not less.
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― Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
― Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of the old systems but rather progressed to an even more urgent defense of objective boundaries and quantifiable truths. In “The Secularization of Language in the Seventeenth Century,” Margreta de Grazia has shown how this pursuit of certainty led to a skepticism about language itself that dissociated words from God and deverbalized God’s message, prompting think
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― Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth
― Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth
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