If you are dealing with someone who is capable of saying anything, does if even matter anymore what he says ? He is self contradictory often in the sa...
Brings up an interesting point to me anyway. Can anyone be inherently selfish and deceitful? Or is that selfishness and deceitfulness a free choice ma...
as my post above, for the evil done by man, the compensating good is free will. For natural evil ( illness, natural disaster, etc) that is harder to i...
Agree, still mostly attend Novus Ordo in my parish, with the family. But try to make it to Latin Mass often. It is making quite a comeback with younge...
Which is often very very hard to arrive at - Is the use of torture on someone to get information that may save thousands functionally moral ? Would mo...
There are 2 classes of evil that the Argument from evil uses, and the core of the counter argument is the same for both. Compensating goods. There are...
a quilia is more than just "a feeling" , the concept is, there are things than can not be known by analysis, study, or science. They can only be known...
Irrespective of the very good arguments of hard determinism, I, and I think most have the sensation of free will. When I stare at the ice cream in the...
That is a questions that requires an understanding of what is the basis for the truth claim, for either answer. If, as per the discussion above, the o...
I think in large measure, people talk past each other when they are not clear on the basis of what they believe to be true. You can believe things to ...
you are more than free to disagree, and there are very logical arguments against, but in no way can you make a reasoned case that the ontological, cos...
Not sure if this helps on the attachment issue. Jesuits call it spiritual freedom. And in Ignatian Spirituality it is the described in the first princ...
i do not see how, is a tautology, it is saying something quite different - It is not real goodness if it is not freely chosen. If I put a gun to your ...
Not sure there is a logical argument that if God exists, we would be able to understand God's nature. It seem man tries to understand a God, in human ...
Wasn't making my own point, just clarifying what the absurdists philosophy was. To Camus the absurd hero is the person who understands that there is n...
that all sounds very much like turning science into religion. I was taught, science knows what it knows, and that is all that it knows. Said different...
Not sure if you are making a different point here or not. But what my understanding of the "Absurdists" ideas, was not that life was absurd. What was ...
This what I was going for in P1. All humans have an equal basic moral status. They possess the same fundamental rights, and the comparable interests o...
Agree - lump it into a basket called safety and security - in the main would be a moral reason for a border. Not sure I agree with very much of this, ...
if you are looking for some semi- scientific based argument for the God as creator, with a bunch of math and probabilities - The fine tuning argument ...
the collective will of a people is no guarantee that the will is moral. That is a separate judgement. That is just changing the hypothetical I propose...
The question in the realm of science is "how was the universe created" - and we all await an answer. The lack of a scientific answer so far, is factua...
as above, my support for the morality of any nations border is its purpose and use. If the purpose or use is moral, the border is moral. Not sure I un...
It seems to me you are trying to use a shovel to cut wood. Your tool does not fit the job. There are 3 ways we can come to believe something to be tru...
Trying to defend that all human being are morally equal is like trying to defend that 2 + 2 = 4. However, that does not mean they are naturally equal,...
Would it matter how you obtained the bed? If you walked into some house with 15 of your favorite bikers and threw out the family that lived there, and...
Thanks - that is the point I was trying to cover with: When moral rights are in conflict a judgement needs to be made. To your point: My point is that...
by the same logic as above, if there was a human being with the power to create the universe - we would recognize that power. We have known about a lo...
In the exact same manner we find it a reasonable belief that unicorns do not exist on earth. Because we would know a unicorn if we saw one and recogni...
We all have an anthropological understanding or explanation of God, because it is the only framework we have, it is the extent of our tools. It is imp...
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