NEWSLETTER
Robert S. Hartman Institute, August, 1009
2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO BE IN MEXICO
The 2008 Annual Conference of the Robert S. Hartman Institute will not be held in Knoxville, TN. Instead, it will be held in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in association with the inaugural session of the new Iberoamerican Branch of the Robert S. Hartman Institute. It will be preceded by a one day Training Conference. For details about dates, Hotels, programs, and connections, please visit the "Annual Meetings" page on the left.
NEW JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY: THEORY AND PRACTICEYou were sent an announcement about this new Journal about a month ago. More details, especially for contributing authors, have now been added. To read them, click on the JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY button on our website. Please consider submitting your research in Hartmanian value theory to us to be considered for possible publication. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THIS JOURNAL ARE INCLUDED IN MEMBERSHIP DUES FOR 2008, as next announced. If member subscribers wish to buy extra copies of the JOURNAL to distribute to clients and friends, the new price is $8.00 per copy postage paid. Non-member subscribers may buy extra copies for $10.00 per copy. Additional postage will be required for shipments outside the United States. Please contact Rem at:
remb@bellsouth.net.
DEADLINES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES Because of unexpected delays and complications, we will be able to publish only one issue of this JOURNAL in 2008 and 2009, but we hope to expand to two issues per year after we accumulate a sufficient backlog of first rate articles.
The 2008 issue is now complete and will be mailed to subscribers before the end of August, 2008. We have to set deadlines for submission of articles and discussions for possible publication. In order to make time for the blind review process, making revisions, etc., submissions for the 2009 issue need to be in to Rem B. Edwards no later than MARCH 1st, 2009. Send your stuff earlier if at all possible! Send articles that conform to the requirements specified in our website to Rem (
remb@bellsouth.net) as e-mail attachments. We can’t have a JOURNAL...unless someone is willing to write for it! Look at the criteria for submission on our website in the JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY page.
REDUCED PRICE ON EXTRA COPIES OF JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGYThe first issue of our new JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY is now in hand and will be mailed out to all subscribers and authors as promptly as possible. Now that we are this close to publication, we have a clearer view of actual costs for extra copies than we once had, and we can reduce the price on extra copies to subscribers. Printing the first several hundred copies is expensive, but additional copies beyond that are much cheaper, depending on how many extra copies we order from our printer.
We have ordered enough additional copies to be able to reduce the price of Volume I to subscribers for any extra copies that they may want. Our new price is $8.00 per copy to member subscribers and $10.00 per copy to non-member subscribers--both postage paid. To order extra copies, please send a check to Darlene Clark, Treasurer, Hartman Institute, 3201 Street, Athens, TX 75752.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2009 ISSUEThe 2009 issue of our Journal will have "Is Formal Axiology a Science?" as its general theme. Other papers on other topics will also be considered. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2009. For general writing and submission guidelines,click on the "JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY" button on the left.
DUES FOR 2008Except for those whose primary membership is in the Iberoamerican Branch, Annual Membership DUES of $65.00 for 2008 were due in January and by now have been paid. The increase covers your new subscription to two issues of the JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY: THEORY AND PRACTICE. Since, on hindsight, we can produce only one issue per year, if you paid $80.00 in 2008, your subscription is paid up through next year, and in January, 2009, you will need to pay only $50.00 for dues. For more subscription information, visit our JOURNAL OF FORMAL AXIOLOGY page. Iberoamerican Branch membership dues remain at $50.00 and do not include a subscription to our new JOURNAL; but for an additional price they may also receive the JOURNAL...
Our annual membership dues cover calendar years, so they should be paid in January of each year, but no later than March 31st, when your listing will be removed from our website if you have not renewed. THIS IS THE ONLY NOTICE YOU WILL RECEIVE FOR YOUR 2008 DUES. Please send dues checks made out to the "Robert S. Hartman Institute" to Darlene Clark, Treasurer, Robert S. Hartman Institute, 3201 Bandera Street, Athens, TX 75752. Please go to the “Membership Application and Renewal” button on the left, print out the form, fill it out, and send it to Darlene along with your check. If already a member, please check your listing on our website in the "Membership Directory" and, where relevant, in “Directory of Axiological Service Providers.” If anything needs changing or updating, please call these changes to Darlene’s attention. Also, in the future, please send all contact changes to her at:
Darlene@darleneclark.com.
NEW HARTMAN INSTITUTE VALUE PROFILE TO BE AVAILABLE AFTER VALIDATIONOur Board of Directors has finalized the items to be included in our new Hartman Institute Value Profile, which we believe will be an improvement on the Standard HVP. However, this new instrument needs to be validated before we make it available for use by Consultants and researchers. Presumably, this validation work is now being done, though the Secretary has heard nothing from this since last October. This process may take some time, so please be patient.
BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTSIf you would like to get announcements about developments in your HVP-related consulting business into our Newsletters, please send them to Rem at
remb@bellsouth.net.
PAY ON LINE BY "PAYPAL" AND CHARGE IT TO YOUR CREDIT CARD
In order to avoid their fee, we strongly discourage its use and prefer a check, but if this is the most convenient way to pay your royalties and/or annual dues, you may now pay us on line through PayPal and have it charged to your credit card. This is mainly for the convenience of people outside the US. To pay anything to the Hartman Institute using PayPal, you have to open your own account with them if you do not have one already.Just follow these steps:
1. Go to the PayPal website: http://www.paypal.com/.
2. Either log in or sign up as a new member.
3. At the top of their page, click on their "Send Money" button.
4. Fill in the form that comes up. Most of it is self-explanatory, but you need two bits of information:
"Recipient's Email": fill in: "remb@bellsouth.net"
"Note": In the box, write what the payment covers. It may cover any of the following.
Membership Dues
Royalties on HVP
Contributions to the Institute
Registration fee for Annual Meeting
Fees for Seminars, Courses, etc.
Indicate any other reasons for payment
5. Having done the above, hit "Continue" at the bottom of the page and finish the transaction.
6. After finishing with PayPal, please write or e-mail Edwards and tell him what you have done so that he can keep all the records straight.
PLEASE SEND US YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND DEGREE
We invite all Members and Consultants who have not already done so to send us a short (a page or two long ) autobiographical statement that we can place with your listing in the "Membership Directory" and/or "Consultants in Good Standing" pages of our website. It should tell something about yourself, your business, and your involvement with the Hartman Value Profile or other aspects of Robert S. Hartman's work. Look at some already-existing autobiographies on our website if you want to see how others are doing it. Autobiographies must be sent to Edwards AS E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS. Send to: remb@bellsouth.net.
If you have not already done so, in which case your listing will not show them, please send your college or advanced degree(s) to Edwards at the above e-mail address. Give exact letters like "BA" or "BS" rather than using general terms like "Bachelors."
SALE ON HARTMAN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Hartman Institute has bought a number of copies of Robert S. Hartman's autobiography, Freedom to Live; The Robert Hartman Story, from its publisher at a significantly discounted price. We can make them available to members of the Institute for $20.00 per copy plus $3.50 per copy for postage and packaging costs. Send your orders to our President, Dr. Stephen C. Byrum, at byrum4@aol.com. Phone or fax him at 423-8886-5587. These would make great gifts for your clients! Editions Rodopi has now returned to copyright on this to us, so when we sell our current stock, we will republish the book at a much cheaper price than Editions Rodopi has been charging.
STATEMENT ON HARTMAN'S FREEDOM TO LIVE
In consultation with former President Leon Pomeroy, Editors Art Ellis and Rem B. Edwards developed the following statement for Hartman's Freedom to Live, and we encourage all sellers and users to photocopy this and include it with the book:
The Robert S. Hartman Institute recognizes that two discussions in Freedom to Live: The Robert S. Hartman Story may offend some people if taken out of context, but we ask for tolerance and understanding and hope that the following remarks will help.
First, on p. 27 Hartman refers to his anti-Hitler article in which he accuses "the Nazi leadership" of being "dominated by homosexuals." A young Robert Schirokauer, who later became Robert Hartman when he escaped Germany and the Nazis, published this article in 1932. It was written at a time when homosexuality was closeted and the Nazis' open practice of it was associated with their general decadence, both homosexual and heterosexual. In this context, it was reflective of the culture of degradation which the Nazis promoted. Hartman devoted the rest of his life to finding ways to organize goodness and to combat evil of all kinds, especially hatred, violence, and intolerance which the Nazis exemplified.
Second, on p. 163 Hartman states that "Jesus was crucified by the powers that were: the Jewish community and the Roman state." Seen in context, this sentence is best understood to be about the "powers" or authorities in the Jewish community, not about the community as a whole. Robert Hartman had a Jewish father, later married a Jewish wife, Rita Emanuel, and fled Nazi Germany for his vigorous opposition to Hitler and Nazism. No Anti-Semitism was intended by his words, rather an explanation that the actual "powers" or authorities who crucified Jesus were operating within the framework of existing law, which can always be used "for either good or evil," in this case for evil. It is a commentary on the dangers of power.
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Dr. Rem B. Edwards
Secretary, Robert S. Hartman Institute
8709 Longmeade Drive
Knoxville, TN 37923