"Deprived of everyday encounters with other people, and cut off from an open-ended experience of the world as a place of difference and change, many inmates lose touch with reality." The Living Death of Solitary Confinement - NYTimes.comBut some philosophers, and others who isolate themselves from meaningful conversation, are at risk of losing touch too. One reason why we'll be philosophizing collaboratively in our course.
A collaborative search for wisdom, at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond... "The pluralistic form takes for me a stronger hold on reality than any other philosophy I know of, being essentially a social philosophy, a philosophy of 'co'"-William James
Sunday, August 26, 2012
The Living Death of Solitary Confinement - NYTimes.com
Vandy philospher Lisa Guenther is writing here about prisoners in solitary confinement...
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If someone is wrongfully convicted and subjected to these types of punishment then I can have empathy for this argument. Now if someone has done something that causes them to be in that type of confinement then I don't have a problem with it. If what she is proposing is upheld, what's going to be next? Counseling sessions for murderers instead of prison?
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