What I Believe and Why
Self-understanding has never been my strong suite. For this reason, I have any number of beliefs and attitudes to the world that I am always in the process of rationalizing. Part of this is simply how I am situated practically. I am a professor at a publicly funded university and so some of my aims and attitudes are the product of what I think to be my professional duty as an educator. If I were a clergyman I would, no doubt, say all kinds of things that would be reprehensible if I said them as a professor. As a clergyman I would have to preach from a confessional standpoint and what I said would be subject to certain kinds of review or even censure. Of course, as a secular academic, I am also subject to review and censure on a whole different set of principles. The fact of the matter is, though, that I could simply not do my job unless I were some sort of pluralist. I have to take on the education of 18-22 year olds across an entire spectrum of ethnic, religious an...