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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Is The Form Of The Body
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
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Induction & Essence
Not that kind of induction! Suppose we observe a raven. It’s black. We see a second, also black. And so on for a few dozen more. We reason, or rather we argue with ourselves, “Since all the many ravens...
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Randomness & God
Reader Omer Abid points us to Serkan Zorba’s article “God is Random: A New Perspective on Evolution and Creationism”, which has concepts of interest to all of us (Abid asked me to look into this not...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Does Not Share One Soul
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Miracles And Possible Explanations
From Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory: ‘And I dare say the first time you saw a man raised from the dead you might think so too.’ He giggled unconvincingly behind the smiling mask. ‘Oh, it’s...
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AI Does Not Pose A Challenge To Christianity
The theology and philosophy of the Atlantic article “Is AI a Threat to Christianity?” proves that it was all downhill after the schoolmen in the sad twilight of the Middle Ages adopted nominalism....
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The Trolley Problem & Driverless Cars
We’re back on our Edge series, What scientific concept ought to be better known. Today’s entry is from Daniel Rockmore on the “Trolley Problem.” This is an over-worked philosophical or ethical...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Everybody Has A Different Intellect
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Sex Slavery In Germany?
There are, as everybody knows, various degrees of slavery, from the brutal chattel-and-chains variety, to indentured servitude, to that which isn’t official but which binds its victims to their bread...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Active & Passive Intellect
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. As...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Agent & Potential Intellect Exist Together
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Can You Find A Counterexample To Feser’s Defense Of The Perverted Faculty...
Here in a succinct and lovely way is Feser’s distillation of the Perverted Faculty Argument (from his paper of the defense of the same) applied to matters sexual: Where some faculty F is natural to a...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The immortality of the soul, Part I
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Clean Razors For Women Who Cut Themselves? What Happened to First Do No Harm?
Physicians long ago abandoned the Hippocratic Oath, for at least the reason that its call for physicians not to cause harm went against the modern acceptance, and even boasting, of killing. Which is...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The immortality of the soul, Part II
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The Coming Metaphysic
Etienne Gilson’s The Unity of Philosophical Experience was recommended to me by Fr Rickert (whom regular readers will recognize) and I in turn recommend it to you. The book was the result of Gilson’s...
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Why Decision Analysis Isn’t Straightforward
Heads I win, Tails you lose. Vast subject, decision analysis, but we can get a grip on a corner of it if we consider the simplest of problems, the do-don’t do, yes-no, gonna happen-ain’t gonna happen,...
View ArticleThe Democratization of Science Is A Bad Thing: Or, Why Bill Nye Perving...
I'm becoming a creationist just to spite Bill Nye after watching this. This is the worst thing I've ever seen and I wish I was dead. pic.twitter.com/mZgSDp17GP — proud boy uhuru (@ecigcaffeineboy)...
View ArticleCould You Do Progressivism, But From The Right?
Today’s discussion question is posed by somebody calling himself Iulian Bretonescu, in “The Right Religion“, which is mandatory reading. Here, for the exceptionally lazy, is a brief summary. (The...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Animal Souls Are Mortal
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Do...
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