Tag Archives: Cultures

The Problem with the ‘Enlightened’

OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Redemptorist leaders, daffodils in love with their self-proclaimed moral beauty, are not responsible for the consequences of their actions. This ironclad truth was the subject of “Politics as a Vocation,” a famed conference offered by German sociologist Max Weber in January 1919 in Munich . His words then reverberate in our current time. The circumstances when

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Navigating Mexico: The Values Children Learn

By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE If you were asked what values you think children should learn, you might come up with some variation of the typical four that come to mind after family: respect for others, appropriate leisure activities, belief (religion) and work ethics. However, those concepts could be considered more activities than values. What if you were given a

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