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Sunday, August 26, 2012

The Living Death of Solitary Confinement - NYTimes.com

Vandy philospher Lisa Guenther is writing here about prisoners in solitary confinement...
"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.com
But 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.

1 comment:

  1. Edrell(13)1:38 AM CDT

    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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