Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1017/s0012217322000154
Helga Varden
Abstract This review locates Asha Bhandary's Freedom to Care in the history of philosophy, notes some of the theory's distinctive features that clearly advance the care theory tradition, and raises some puzzles and questions regarding specific elements of the theory. My remarks focus mostly on Part I of the book and on the following four topics: (1) Bhandary's Rawlsian roots, (2) Bhandary's engagement with Eva Feder Kittay, (3) Bhandary's choice of J. S. Mill and John Rawls as her main historical interlocutors, and finally, (4) Bhandary's methodological choice of ‘men/fathers,’ ‘women/mothers,’ and ‘children/girls/boys’ as the main focus of much of her analysis.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.5406/15549399.56.2.06
Aurora Golden-Appleton
A knot can be a beautiful thing. A knot can reveal truths about how the world works. Some people are so enraptured by knots, they dedicate their lives to studying them.I'm devoting no energy to the mathematical grandeur of knots as I pull a brush through my bedraggled hair in quick strokes. There's not enough light to imagine much of anything at 4:00 a.m., when I awaken for work. My hair goes into a simple ponytail, and a stretchy headband holds everything in place. Any glimmer of aesthetic creativity is decisively stifled by the knowledge that I'll soon be donning a rather unfashionable N95 mask for thirteen hours.I pull the front door closed, hit shuffle on today's Taylor Swift playlist, and wend a solitary two-mile sidewalk route to my hospital flush with the Wasatch Mountains. A novel virus emerged in a bustling port a world away two months before my seventeenth birthday, and now I'm here at 5:21 on a Saturday morning. Life comes at you fast.A month ago, you were probably waking up to make breakfast for your three kids. Two weeks ago, you arrived here, with tubes galore snaking around your bed to pump medicines into your blood and blow oxygen into your flared nostrils. Last week, the doctor held your husband on the phone as your oxygen levels dropped lower and lower, a nurse silenced the alarm that's been ringing in her head for the last ten months, and they inserted a tube down your throat to help you breathe.Today, a team of six of us crowded into your room, where you were lying face down on the plastic mattress, positioned to relieve the pressure on your inflamed lungs. We packed sheets onto your body before counting to three and moving fluidly to flip you to your back for a few hours of respite from “adult tummy time.”The respiratory therapist hit “Three!” and that's when we met. I didn't want to, but I winced. Bloated and twisted—there's still something so viscerally shocking to me about seeing the face of a really, really sick human being. Your face.You have a team of world-class clinicians who will titrate your medicines and do the work for and in behalf of your lungs. And a family who will skip breakfast, lunch, and dinner today as a collective demonstration of their faith and love for you. What I am here to share with you is my time. My job right now is detangling deaconess, at one with the standard-issue plastic comb I grabbed from the supply room before suiting up and entering your world.And so, a few weeks into your brutally long disease course, I find myself sitting on a stool at your bedside, talking to you as I comb through your tangled ICU crown. I start at the bottom and work upward in sections, wetting your hair with detangler and teasing apart knot after knot.In mathematics, we talk about knots as a kind of closed loop, two ends married together and rendered inseparable. Unlike a tied shoelace, by definition, these knots can't be undone.But to be connected to other people so deeply that we can hold in our hands another's li
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/15549399.56.1.01
Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Of all the changes made in response to the 2018 decision to emphasize the full name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, those made to the official Latter-day Saint web and digital presence stand out in particular. If the depth of the Latter-day Saint leadership's commitment to this emphasis is evident in changes to names of well-known institutions such as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (now The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square), the scope of Latter-day Saint presence on the internet and in other digital spheres required a breadth of commitment after the 2018 decision that is worthy of attention. For example, by February 2020,1 Latter-day Saint officials had reported renaming hundreds of web and mobile apps, making iterative changes to its social media presence, changing the name of the wireless network in Latter-day Saint church buildings, and rolling out new versions of long-existing websites.Although Latter-day Saint authorities have insisted that these changes are not an issue of rebranding,2 it seems clear that legitimacy has played a role in this increased attention to names and naming. Heidi Campbell has observed that “the legitimation of authority for specific religions . . . may rely at least partially on recognizing the fact that a particular divine source plays a role in offering external validation”;3 it is perhaps in this spirit that President Russell Nelson has emphasized his belief that the name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is of divine origin.4 Similarly, apostle Neil Andersen's (re)telling the story of a Latter-day Saint who was accepted as a Christian after emphasizing his church's full name5 corresponds with an understanding of legitimacy as “widespread social approval.”6However, there is an undeniable tension between this bid for increased legitimacy and the necessity of realizing that bid in digital spaces. Even relatively straightforward changes (such as replacing the “LDSAccess” wireless network name with “Liahona”) are mediated by technical constraints and standards outside of Latter-day Saint leaders’ control. More dramatically, the process of replacing lds.org with churchofjesuschrist.org necessarily “invokes a hugely complex system of technical and contractual coordination.”7 In short, while names have long been associated with legitimacy in Mormon contexts,8 domain names illustrate sociotechnical complications of these associations.In this article, I will examine how changes to (Anglophone-aimed) domain names of the official websites of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints extend, continue, and complicate the existing relationship between naming and legitimacy in the Latter-day Saint tradition. In doing so, I will illustrate two key points concerning the relationship between Mormonism and technology. First, as Latter-day Saint institutions use digital technologies to make claims to authority and legitimacy, they are also subject to independent processes of legitimation that
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/15549399.56.1.25
Joni Newman
When I was about twelve, yet another retelling of the Cinderella story was released into theatres in a magic-free but nonetheless magical version called Ever After. One of my favorite scenes in this film involves the prince pacing along a riverbank, bemoaning the challenge of finding his true love to Leonardo da Vinci. He asks the great Renaissance man, How can you be certain to find [the right person]? And if you find them, are they really the one for you, or do you only think they are? What if the person you're meant to be with never appears? Or she does but you're too distracted to notice? You learn to pay attention. Then, let's say God puts two people on earth, and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well, then, what? Is that it? Or perchance you meet someone new and marry again. Is that the lady you should be with, or was it the first? When the two of them are side by side, were they both the one for you and you just met the first one first? Or is the second one supposed to be first?1An understandably exasperated da Vinci tells the prince that he needs to learn to pay attention and not leave everything to fate. In other words, he needs to quit worrying about making the one right choice and just choose.Knowing how to make good decisions can be rather overwhelming and perhaps lead us to the petrified paranoia of indecision, too afraid of getting it wrong to move forward with faith. In seeking out answers on how to understand and recognize the voice of God, the scriptures and the prophets have offered plenty of advice. For instance, many prophets have suggested the pattern of searching the scriptures, meditating upon the answer, and praying for clarification. Simple. But how do we know that we have received an answer? In section 8 of the Doctrine and Covenants, Joseph Smith reveals to Oliver Cowdery that he will be told “in [his] mind and in [his] heart” what to do (D&C 8:2, emphasis added). Another revelation refers to Oliver as being enlightened in his mind alone (D&C 6:15). To complicate matters, President Harold B. Lee once said, “When your heart begins to tell you things that your mind does not, then you are getting the Spirit of the Lord,” in direct contrast to additional counsel that Oliver was given.2 Should we wait to feel peace of mind? Of heart? Of both?Other scriptures speak of hearing an internal voice—sometimes a loud one, more often still or small—or of finding insight through the written word of God. We might listen to music, experience feelings of peace, or a more intense “burning of the bosom.” Answers may come through time alone or in the company of others. In other words: there are so many possible avenues through which we can receive divine counsel that we may find that, like Prince Henry in Ever After, we end up stuck pacing along a riverbank trying desperately to know whether or not we have received the answer we sought for, too anxious about making the wrong decision to act a
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