Summary Against Modern Thought: Eat Up!
Previous post. Enjoying your meal is not gluttony. If you get kicked out of the all-you-can it, it is. THAT THE USE OF FOOD IS NOT A SIN IN ITSELF…
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Love Your Neighbor (The People Near You)
Previous post. Puritanism is not a viable option. HOW MAN IS ORDERED BY THE LAW OF GOD IN REGARD TO HIS NEIGHBOR 1 From the things that we have said…
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Nature’s Law
Previous post. The beginnings of natural law! THAT SOME HUMAN ACTS ARE RIGHT ACCORDING TO NATURE AND NOT MERELY BECAUSE THEY ARE PRESCRIBED BY LAW 1 From the foregoing it…
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: The Counsels of Divine Law
Previous post. The difference between must and if you can. ON THE COUNSELS THAT ARE GIVEN IN DIVINE LAW 1 Since the best thing for man is to become attached…
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: The Attack Against Voluntary Poverty
Previous post. Our good saint produces in this Chapter the best arguments against voluntary poverty. He then defends that state in the next two chapters. ON THE ERROR OF THE…
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: The Way of Voluntary Poverty
Previous post. St Thomas now begins his counter-attack from last week, which is also continued over the coming weeks. ON THE WAYS OF LIFE OF THOSE WHO PRACTICE VOLUNTARY POVERTY…
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: In What Way Poverty Is Good
Previous post. The long and complicated arguments for and against poverty continue. There are arguments that will be countered next week. IN WHAT WAY POVERTY IS GOOD 1 So, then,…
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Arguments For Poverty
Previous post. We’re still on poverty, for and against. ANSWERS TO THE ARGUMENTS BROUGHT FORWARD ABOVE AGAINST POVERTY 1 Now that these things have been seen, it is not difficult…
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Not All Sins Are Equal
Previous post. There is a hierarchy to everything. THAT NEITHER MERITORIOUS ACTS NOR SINS ARE EQUAL 1 Next, it is plain that neither all good works, nor all sins, are equal. Indeed, […]
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Man’s Acts Are Punished And Rewarded By God
Previous post. That God rewards everybody believes. That God punishes is impossible for many to now believe. THAT A MAN’S ACTS ARE PUNISHED OR REWARDED BY GOD 1 It is apparent from […]
View ArticleHystericalectomy: Yes, “Trans” People Are Crazy
Gaze upon this headline from a story by the so-called Friendly Atheist. “Transgender Man Sues Catholic Hospital for Canceling His Hysterectomy.” What should be noted is that the headline is not this […]
View ArticleIs Mandatory Vaccination Against COVID-19 Precautionary? — Guest Post by Jaap...
This post originally ran at Hanekamp’s own site1. He is a chemist and theologian. My love and I are fortunate enough to have three children, now in their twenties. They are well […]
View ArticleThe Physicist Brian Greene Does Not Exist — And Neither Do You — If The...
The excerpt of a collection of sounds from a thing which is called Brian Greene, but which isn’t, is here: "The feeling of intentionality is real, but you're not the ultimate author […]
View ArticleAcademics Demand Mandatory Chemical Moral Bioenhancement To Make You More...
The New Mandatory Eugenics: Background We’ve heard a lot over the past decade from ethicists (so-called) and scientists (don’t laugh) who aren’t satisfied with human nature, they are not satisfied at...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean To Assess Risk Wrong? Coronadoom Example
There is, as de Finetti said, no such thing as probability. So there is no such thing as risk, either, since risk relies upon probability. If there is no such thing as […]
View ArticleLove Is Hate: Pro-Transgender Speech Is Hate Speech
There are only two possibilities: either God exists, or we each are gods. In either case, pro-transgender, pro-sodomy, pro-perversion speech of any kind is hate speech and must be condemned, expunged,...
View ArticleAcademics Throw Fit After Being Told They Don’t Throw Fits Over IQ & Race
There are many positions on IQ, the so-called intelligence quotient, but most fall into two camps. Those who reject IQ measures outright, because racism, and those who claim people have an IQ, […]
View ArticleA Twist In A Solution To Newcomb’s Paradox
Let’s take a break from the insanity and wade into cool waters to start the weekend. I’ll take it that you’ve watched this video, which purports to give a solution to Newcomb’s […]
View ArticleScience Is Now Politics, Says Nature: Here’s Why They’re Right
Nature magazine definitely announced, daring to be doubted, “Science and politics are inseparable”. They followed this up with, “We cannot stand by and let science be undermined”, and so endorsed...
View ArticleInsights on Philosophy of Beauty — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
On the eve of the greatest beauty, an essay on what beauty means. What is beauty? It may be a little complicated to define how an object, thing or person is “beautiful” […]
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