Listening with the Ear of the Heart After focusing last year on seeing reality and conveying it to others, Pope Francis in his 2022 Message for the World Communications Day emphasized the quality of listening, which he said: “is decisive in the grammar of communication and is a condition for genuine dialogue.”
In 2008, I was visiting the Nobel Conference held annually at Gustavus Adolphus college in Minnestoa. The conference was on Human Evolution. The college provided space in a large room for people to have their lunch, and while I was having lunch on the first day, I noticed a table off to the side staffed by a serious looking man with a clipboard. The front of his table was adorned with a large “Science Debate 08” banner. Seemed interesting. So I wandered over and had a chat.
@ Jeffrey.do you ever notice how eugenics has so much in common with what you re casually discussing?
By ron (not verified) on 02 Jan 2013 #permalink
ron, I m just saying, I d rather not see inbred and illiterate people (who think we subsist by breathing carbon monoxide ) reproduce. I apologize for calling you a hamster. That was rude and uncalled for by me. Sometimes I act like the very people I despise. Anyhow, i found it confusing when I tried to read being and nothingness by Sartre... He said that man is morally undefined, then wrote a big ass book on what our moral definitions ought to be. Part of the appeal of existentialism is that the individual defines morality only as it relates to him.