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While Paul never published articles in the area of Ethics, he nonetheless read a great deal of ethical theory. He concluded that there were too many mush-heads doing ethics. When asked which ethicists he thought worth reading, he suggested Bentham, Prichard, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Bradley’s essays, and the ethical writings of Amartya Sen. That he suggested these writers did not mean he endorsed their positions. Over the years, we discussed his approach to philosophy and why he attacked what was often thought to be “sacred doctrines.” In the end, his work has always had as one of its goal to stop mush headed thinking.
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Alphonso Pinkney, Red, Black, and Green: Black Nationalism in the United States ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978 ), p. 76.
Ibid., pp. 76–80.
Ibid., chapter 7.
The Black Panther Party denounced cultural nationalists, calling them “pork-chop” nationalists. Ibid., p. 123.
Kofsky, Frank. “Black Nationalism in Jazz” in The Journal of Ethnic Studies 10(2), pp. 1–27.
Kofsky, Frank. Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music ( New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970 ).
Robert Francesconi, “Free Jazz and Black Nationalism: A Rhetoric of Musical Style”, in Critical Studies in Mass Communication 3(1986), pp. 36–49.
Ibid., p. 40.
Ibid., p. 41.
Ibid., p. 40.
Ibid., p. 40.
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An earlier version of this paper was read at the Oxford Centre for African Studies, Oxford
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Lawson, B.E. (1994). Jazz and the African-American Experience: The Expressiveness of African-American Music. In: Jamieson, D. (eds) Language, Mind, and Art. Synthese Library, vol 240. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8313-8_10
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