Kafka College: The Program
Culture of Responsibility: “Panton non inconcessus est coactum!”
1. Take stock of the current climate of personal, social, and institutional responsibility. Find the seeds of divisiveness.
This will involve a survey of student views on responsibility, student views on academic integrity, taking the opinions of others seriously, and making reasonable moral arguments.
It is divisive to cause offense, to hold unreasonable moral attitudes.
2. Hold discussions of important issues….
• freedom of religious expression must be hate-free;
• freedom of speech must be harmonious, unoffending to the new culture of responsibility;
• freedom of artistic expression must shun patriarchy and religious orthodoxy;
• living sustainably compliant with acceptable green guidelines for heat, foodstuffs, transportation modes;
• peace and justice war never solves anything and from each according to their ability, to each according to their need
3. Build the capacity to reach mutual understanding on these issues through structured dialogues gain verbal, then mental assent to the tenets of the new culture of responsibility.
4. Build the capacity to discuss how questions of personal, social and institutional responsibility are embedded in these issue-specific dialogues the personal is political.
5. Assess progress on resolving these issues through dialogue identify intractable divisive elements
6. Create a sustainable culture of responsibility for resolving these and future divisive issues within the residential colleges and eventually across the campus you too will be assimilated.
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.” Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn