violence

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:45 AM -0700 12/25/10, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>2008 Susan Neiman _Moral Clarity_ (Orlando: Harcourt) 12: Abraham at Mount
>Moriah...doesn't ask anything at all. To do so, he thinks, would be an act
>of superstition, even violence.
>
>  "Radical defiance"?  "Unthinkable spiritual liberty"?  A little semantic
>clarity would be useful. The context helps not at all.
>
Is this different from the violence that's done whenever someone or
something "does violence to" something or other?

LH

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