The instrumentality of language is relevant not only to the way one thinks and speaks but also, and more importantly, to how one lives – and is allowed to live.
Great question. I'm not sure the state can any more than the Roman empire can BUT...the state CAN serve those who assume responsibility for their own government: That's citizenship, as I understand it. Libraries, fire departments, roads, childcare, healthcare, museums, water, electricity, and education. That last one involves employing qualified & caring teachers. My brother, my sister, my wife, my mother, my father, and I have all undertaken that work. I wouldn't call that the state doing it so much as funding it. Even then, it's people paying other people to do a needful thing. State as co-op. But "state," in Asad's parlance is darker than what one thinks of as a co-op.
Wow. Asad looks like Hauerwas. Or Hauerwas looks like Asad.
Where is the text you are referring to?
Thank you for this, Kathleen. If you click the name (Talal Asad) beneath the passage, itll take you to the whole thing.
Hmmm...what would it look like for the state to teach us how to befriend one another?
Yes we get to carry each other, but someone needs to teach us how to do that
Great question. I'm not sure the state can any more than the Roman empire can BUT...the state CAN serve those who assume responsibility for their own government: That's citizenship, as I understand it. Libraries, fire departments, roads, childcare, healthcare, museums, water, electricity, and education. That last one involves employing qualified & caring teachers. My brother, my sister, my wife, my mother, my father, and I have all undertaken that work. I wouldn't call that the state doing it so much as funding it. Even then, it's people paying other people to do a needful thing. State as co-op. But "state," in Asad's parlance is darker than what one thinks of as a co-op.
Right. Teaching is an opportunity. A window to change. Thanks David.