Statues are not about history. We don't memorialize each piece of history. We memorialize things that we want to value and things that we want our ch… - Susan Neiman

Those who cannot find [moral clarity] are likely to settle for the far more dangerous simplicity, or purity, instead.

Like many others, I came to philosophy to study matters of life and death, and was taught that professionalization required forgetting them. The more I learned, the more I grew convinced of the opposite: the history of philosophy was indeed animated by the questions that drew us there.

However long Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians struggle to find multiple meanings in this text, the dominant seems to be this: Abraham’s unquestioning willingness to heed gods command to sacrifice the thing he loved most is what qualified him to become the father of what are called still the Abrahamic faiths.