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...take action. Indeed the fear of confronting “genocide” in Rwanda was so high in 1994 that we allowed 800,000 people to die before recognizing the situation for what it was. Apparently, the value of not offending the Khartoum government is greater than the moral obligation to stop the massacre of more innocent Darfurians...
...generation is as I say it is. That we can break the Organization Kid mold on occasion doesn’t diminish the concerns outlined in the New York Times article and doesn’t begin to address Brooks’ criticism about character building and moral discourse. But I do think this flexibility to be something other than purely goal-driven success machines is one that will serve us well in the future...
Sen’s academic career, which has centered on economic and moral dilemmas resulting from underdevelopment in the international context, made him an ideal speaker to usher out the Kennedy school graduates as they embark on internationally oriented careers...
...Amartya Sen is a hero to those of us who would recall economics to its roots in moral and political philosophy,” Bass Professor of Government Michael Sandel writes in an e-mail. “He reminds us that economics can be a humane science, concerned not only with utility but also with human development, democracy and freedom...
...when his dissertation snagged a no-strings-attached fellowship, Sen gained a few years of open-ended study at Cambridge. He turned to philosophy, focusing in particular on epistemology and moral and ethical topics. At Harvard, he has taught extensively in both the economics and philosophy departments...