As to whether I have Kierkegaard right, I don't know, but I took his position that Abraham showed the perfect faith in God when he unquestionably agre...
Isaac was 37 when Abraham took him up the mountain to sacrifice him and Abraham was 137. That the story states God had to intervene to stop the sacrif...
The proportionality limitation is imposed in a retributionist model, where we want to limit the punishment to fit the crime. That doesn't apply in det...
The counter argument is that what you describe as "greed" is better described as striving and that those who achieve more for themselves also produce ...
The fallacy fallacy fallacy: The mistake of thinking/inferring that the conclusion of an argument is false because you think it contains a fallacy but...
While I recognize you probably presented these questions in order to present examples of solved problems, I think I'll take a more literal approach an...
Here's a list of the unsolved problems in philosophy all organized for you by Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_philoso...
I just heard this this morning and I came to this thread to post just this, but you beat me to it, so here's to synchronicity. Not just the lyrics, bu...
My position wasn't to equate Christianity to Marxism, but it was to respond to your post that Marxism did not respect the rule of law. You're pointing...
I'm not a Marxist, so I don't defend it, but I don't believe it a tenant of communism that there be anarchy with the absence of law. Those nations I'v...
Thank you for the visual. If the premise is that the acceptance of Jesus as one's savior is a necessary component for eternal salvation from damnation...
If you begin with the premise that God is infinitely wise and complex and that certain texts are a direct expression of his knowledge and that those t...
I'm not as interested in those posts that are parsing out the meanings of words in how they are actually used and I'm comfortable with your use of the...
The distinction I draw between your question and the question of the OP is that your question asks how to deal with those who have stolen land whereas...
That it might be difficult to tolerate those who hate me, that doesn't provide a basis for their expulsion from my presence. I don't know that the obj...
A real man is someone who is a father, an Olympic champion, a stepfather, a husband, a multi-millionaire, someone who raises billionaire daughters and...
I take this to mean that there are moral laws and man made laws and whether the man made one exists is not dependent upon whether it comports with the...
This comment really deprives this debate of any significance. In trying to determine what this thread intends to answer, I've arrived at that followin...
I do understand that nature does not promulgate rules, but it does operate in a predictable way, consistent with what we call the laws of physics. Tha...
That much is obvious. The positive law doesn't claim to be necessarily moral. Natural law does. In fact, natural law is defined as that which is moral...
It doesn't appear to me that you're arguing that moral principles are not law. You're arguing that the law is comprised of "statutes which have been l...
Alright, I'll crack open my dictionary as well: Natural law is defined as "a body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human con...
Except there are different kinds of laws, some that require an evaluation of the justice they provide and others that don't. It's for that reason a ho...
I recently took a course so that I could be certified as a mediator. What was unusual (for me) was that the trainers were academics at a local univers...
Laws that are mala prohibita prohibit conduct unrelated to morality. The zoning law dictating the color scheme of the homes is an example. Laws that a...
This reminds me of the Tanya doctrine of the three levels of morality among persons: the tzadik, the benoni, and the rasha (https://www.chabad.org/lib...
To follow up on this, I give you https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Oxford%27s_case In holding that when there is a conflict in common law and in...
Except this isn't what I limited it to in my post, and you ignored my comments where I did point to the influence of natural law in the American syste...
Before responding, I ask the relevance of your question. Assuming there are such instances, would you reconsider anything you've said in this thread? ...
@"Ciceronianus the White" and So that's obvious. We can all list off countless examples of immoral laws that have existed throughout our checkered his...
Hypothetically, there could be a unanimous opinion as to the purpose of a law and that purpose could be to advance a certain morality. In any event, t...
If judges decree which laws are to be enforced based upon the justice, wisdom, efficiency, or prudence of the law and those pronouncements are recogni...
Why must correspondence between the good and the law be coincidental and not intentional? If your local government legalized rape, wouldn't your objec...
So the law is whatever people happen to respect as the law, variable to the current subjective state of the people at the time and variable to a parti...
The British humor I think that doesn't translate well in the US isn't so much the sarcasm or understatement, but the absurd (like Monty Python), the m...
My theory is that a few far left liberal billionaires (referred to as "they") have manipulated the right to avoid vaccines in order to kill them and s...
Very cool. In Georgia, all we have are feral pigs that roam the countryside. They're not as interesting as your goats, and they're very destructive an...
My goats will be like my kids were and one day my grandchildren will be. They will have no utility, will destroy all sorts of things, will bear additi...
You should stop by the Hanover Estate. I have a new place, got a pool too. Some guy has been doing the dead man float out there for days. Very convinc...
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