A story about St. Thomas Aquinas is said to sum up his disposition, faith, and saintliness. Being such an eminent and careful philosopher even in his own day, many of Aquinas’ peers were amazed at his trusting nature. And what is more fun than tricking someone who is smarter than you? So they schemed. When…
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Plenty has been said about the morality of homosexuality from Christian perspectives. I have pondered often why Darwinists don’t find homosexuality unnatural for humans from a teleological perspective. As it turns out, a recent r/philosophy post addressed this and leveled some objections… Natural Law Theory and the Argument The perverted faculty argument (henceforth PFA) is…
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at least, the anti-Christianity of Nietzsche, is more similar than most Christians and Nietzscheans like to admit. This thought struck me as I read Listen Little Man, by Wilhelm Reich, and a recent Ethika Politika column makes the same point about our call to be fully human and fully alive… Nietzsche famously wrote that the…
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From our “alternative perspectives” tag… Antinatalism: since children can’t consent to being born, it’s unethical to impose life (give birth) in a world in which the potential for great suffering exists. Having children means gambling with the welfare of someone else. It means conducting Frankenstein experiments you can’t control in which someone else pays the…
DetailsYour lecture of the week this week is the late Milton Friedman’s son David (famous in his own right, but whatever), giving examples of circumstances under which libertarianism can be very hard to justify. Everyone pursuing the ideology should give this one a listen:
CompassRose makes yet another h/t moment, this one pure gold, and describes very well some of the narcissists we all know… If everyone around you is an idiot, most likely you are a jerkface: Picture the world through the eyes of the jerk. The line of people in the post office is a mass of…
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