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Goldthwait, John Turner was born on March 31, 1921 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Charles Francis and Isabel (Thatcher) Goldthwait.
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Ned, having newly earned a Ph.D., and Diane, a young schoolteacher, have an idyllic courtship and marriage. Their child Andy (Alexandra) is a delight. Ned advances in college teaching to become a department chairman. In Andy’s fifteenth year, Diane is diagnosed with cancer. Ned believes that no just God would afflict such a good woman in this way. He decides that the religious stories just aren’t true. After Diane’s death, Ned and Andy go to their summer camp on a small lake in the Adirondack foothills, to grieve and recover. Ned feels remorse that he had allowed Diane to die believing she had sinned and was being punished. He resolves to save Andy from any such tormenting belief. A thug threatens to rape Andy; she cleverly eludes him. The two return to their home, ready again to face life strongly.
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"What's wrong with our schools and society in general is that we just don't teach values anymore!" We often see this lament on the editorial pages of leading newspapers and magazines, on TV news programs, and on popular talk shows. But how many of us can state clearly what a value is? In Values, John T. Goldthwait draws on his thirty years of teaching experience to fill an urgent public need for a well-reasoned popular book on this vital subject. By making use of entertaining, everyday situations, he helps us identify and understand the values we hold. But more importantly, Goldthwait shows us how to form them, use them, and justify them against the competing values of others.
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Answering the simplest questions satisfactorily often poses the greatest challenge and difficulty to philosophers. Since these questions concern principles underlying our everyday conduct, the inability to provide convincing answers can be exceedingly frustrating. When, during a career of teaching, John T. Goldthwait was asked by his students "Why is that good?" - in regard to art and to conduct - he realized he had no answer that would satisfy his students and himself. And so, his effort to answer his students became a journey through the concept of value judgments, resulting in his book, Value, Language, and Life. What is value? What makes things good? Value, Language, and Life presents a new answer to these age-old questions through Goldthwait's adaptation of linguistic analysis and phenomenological methodology. By examining our everyday experience and use of language, he arrives at a knowledge of value that can be applied in solving problems and reconciling disputes about value. This unique approach enables us to place ethics, aesthetics, and other fields in which value is prominent on a single foundation.
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"Although Doug has been an acolyte helping his father conduct services in the church where the latter preaches, conscience drives him to state one Sunday at dinner that he does not believe there is a God. His father, Craig, is deeply hurt, feeling himself a failure, yet he declines to damage the family by contesting the point with Doug;. Months later, Craig astonished Doug by saying he has come to agree. He resigns his ministerial appointment and his church. Learning the reason, the community is in an uproar; Craig finds a modest job. His wife returns to work so they can afford a small apartment and used car. Now first one new event, then another, confirm the opinion of many in the community that an angry God has shown his wrath. "
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Andy watches as college roommate Toni falls in love, conceives, marries, starts a family. She watches another love develop, that of her widowed father. She sees a failed parent resort to suicide imploring his family still to love him. When a handsome poet courts her, she attends closely to her feelings, but rather than love for a man she finds love for a child, Toni’s toddler Benjie. One afternoon tragedy strikes: Benjie wanders from home and is never again seen. Fascination with child development turns Andy from her intended teaching toward the study of medicine. After her mother’s death, she and her father have found solace in the secluded setting of their inherited small lake and surrounding Adirondack mountain property. Andy decides, with her father’s blessing, to devote this beautiful, healing place to establishing a children’s hospital. Write Review Read Reviews
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Goldthwait, John Turner was born on March 31, 1921 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Charles Francis and Isabel (Thatcher) Goldthwait.
Bachelor, Master of Arts, Oglethorpe University, 1944. Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1957.
Faculty, Oglethorpe U., 1941-1943, 46-50; faculty, Sacramento State College, 1952-1955; faculty, University of California at Davis, 1956-1964; professor philosophy, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, 1964-1985; chairman division humanities, State University of New York at Plattsburgh (College Arts and Science), 1964-1967; dean faculty humanities, State University of New York at Plattsburgh (College Arts and Science), 1967-1969. Faculty Pacific Philosophy Institute, U. Pacific, summer 1962. Coordinator educational program for Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora, New York, 1966-1973.
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("Although Doug has been an acolyte helping his father con...)
(Answering the simplest questions satisfactorily often pos...)
(Andy watches as college roommate Toni falls in love, conc...)
(Ned, having newly earned a Ph.D., and Diane, a young scho...)
Member Lake Champlain Committee, 1969-1985. Served to lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Member American Association of University Professors, American Philosophical Association, American Society Aesthetics, American Society Value Inquiry, Council on Religion in International Affairs, Florida Philosophical Association, Berkeley Aesthetics Seminar, Central California Philosophical Association (president 1959), Speech Association American, National Council Teachers English, American Translators Association, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Center for Inquiry Transnat.
Married Elizabeth Virginia Benefield, November 26, 1946. 1 child, Christopher Edgar.