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their religion Two
sisters from a Muslim family attend the same college. The older one starts dating
a non-Muslim boy she meets in class. The younger sister is angry because she wants
her parents to arrange her own marriage with a boy from their Orthodox Muslim
community. If the community finds out that the older sister is dating, especially
a non-Muslim, it will hurt the family's reputation and make it difficult for the
younger sister to marry. The older sister refuses to stop dating her classmate.
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Candace Vogler's most recent and ambitious work, the associate professor in philosophy
set out to publish her 1994 dissertation on practical reason-reason directed toward
action or policy-but ended up refuting her earlier work. Her
new book, Reasonably Vicious, due from Harvard University Press in November,
became a limited defense of the "standard view" of practical reason-a
theory that was popular dissertation fodder when Vogler studied philosophy at
the University of Pittsburgh because, she says, it was ripe for hole finding. [
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