violence

[Jonathan Lighter]

You'd expect so, wouldn't you?

JL

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> 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.
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> >  "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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