TURN thou us, O good Lord, and so shall we be turned… (Service of Commination, 1662 Book of Common Prayer) We are wrongdoers. The stark reality of this fact frames all our ethical theories, every human religion, and so many of our daily interactions. It is in the avoided eyes…
So far, all i have described is a situation in which all ethical discourse is shut down – there are no questions to be asked – but how do we know that the moral exhortation we are hearing is right – how do we avoid the inevitable trump card from the Confessors. The…
series begins here [http://andersonpost.org/2009/08/17/review-australia-whose-land-part-1/] The ethics of Indigenous reconciliation, and the ethics of reconciliation in general involves the exploration of the relation between power and subjectivity. What it means to be a ‘good ethical Hearer’, i.e., the recipient of moral exhortation, is inseparable…
Last Monday night (10th August) Dr Peter Adam delivered the Second Annual John Saunders Lecture in the Chapel of Morling College. His topic was Australia – whose land? The following day a very brief report of the lecture appeared on the Sydney Morning Herald website [http://www.smh.com.au/national/…