I think your position would be stronger if you abandoned the claim (which I think you make) that procreation (causing conception to take place) itself...
We must return, then, to curious claim that we somehow do harm to "someone" who doesn't exist. In other words, that there is some class of "people" wh...
Now that I've had to think about him again, I wonder whether Kuhn may have been speaking more as a historian of science in his Structure than as a phi...
I fear that I'm incapable of determining what "anybody" may say or may have said on this point. As to Kuhn, though I doubt he ever used so few words i...
Ah, Thomas "Paradigm" Kuhn. How well I remember being forced to read his Structure of Scientific Revolutions along with Plato's insufferable Republic ...
God's teeth. What a story. I've never been a fan of this most melancholy of the Danes. I wonder if he ever read Goethe and pondered whether the eterna...
I'm prone to irony. Regardless, I don't believe being a practicing lawyer requires appreciation of the glory of God's favorite country, these United S...
Well, I'm a lawyer. I went to law school. Doing that is a condition precedent to being a lawyer where I practice, and in most jurisdictions in our Glo...
You seem to mistake the refusal to be overwhelmed by reality for ignorance of reality. H.L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear ...
I don't think the Stoics believed there's nothing wrong with the world, or that the world is perfect, as that would require them to take the position ...
The quote from Kant reminds me of what the devotees of the Orphic mystery cult were told to say when asked who they were by the guardians of the after...
I don't think of it as "a natural consequence of consciousness and free-will" because I think it's decidedly unnatural. In living we're part of the wo...
I'm not sure I understand your point. But I think we've been ill-served by the belief we're apart from Nature rather than a part of it. I think that m...
The Church derived a good deal from Stoicism and ancient philosophy in general, so I think an appreciation for it has always been there. But I think i...
An interesting and legitimate caution. But although a Stoic partakes in Nature and the creative intelligence which permeates it, and so can be said to...
It's a rather daunting list, isn't it? One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic--these are the Four Marks, or Attributes, of the (true) Church. "One" because...
Not if being a religious person requires belief in a personal (and so bewilderingly human) God. Formerly, a member of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apos...
Solipsism is the philosophy for you, then. Or, perhaps, "Me-ism" (copyright Ciceronianus 2017), as you seem to acknowledge the existence of others, bu...
I think you're confusing judging and knowing. Accepting what I think is the common conception of God, God doesn't judge whether or not someone violate...
I think merely that one can have committed a crime without having been found to have done so. This assumes, of course, that there are laws, but we don...
A criminal is someone who has committed a crime. We determine what constitutes a crime, as we adopt laws. A crime is "an action or omission that const...
He apparently could be chilling, as well. And so we have Luke 14:25, where he's depicted as saying what modern cult leaders have been inclined to say,...
We seem to have a problem communicating, or I do. The definition of "guilty" includes "responsible for" (in dictionaries I've seen, in any case). The ...
If a person commits a crime that person is responsible for the crime, and is therefore guilty of committing the crime. The person is responsible for t...
The point I've been trying to make is that what is the case in the law (e.g., whether a person is guilty or not guilty of a crime) isn't necessarily w...
If we assume a person is guilty of a crime when that person commits a crime, and we assume that person committed a crime, then the person is necessari...
I don't think the first example is a reformulation in any significant sense. The second, though, I believe to be an entirely different question. But I...
I merely say it's inappropriate to refer to what doesn't exist as if it does exist. So, the question posed would more properly be stated (I think) as ...
"Guilty" of committing a crime. I think most would say that a person who actually committed a crime is guilty of committing a crime, regardless of whe...
In the law, a person is "guilty" of a crime when a court or jury determines the person has committed a crime (or confesses to a crime). A person is "n...
Burr, as you may know, was the grandson of preacher/theologian Jonathan Edwards. I have the impression Burr wasn't religiously inclined, though. One o...
According to Aaron Burr, an able lawyer and, I think, a much maligned figure in American history: "The law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibl...
Alas, I've been involved in the burial of loved ones, long ago and fairly recently, and have practiced law for longer than I'd care to admit. Although...
Ah, but to the extent living an intellectual life is related to law and corpses, you haven't lived a truly intellectual life until you practice law wh...
Not much, really, beyond the fact that I think the Caesars probably had friends, though not many, being Caesars, and that Jesus as putative God probab...
I suspect Jesus never had a friend, really. At least, we never hear of one, though it's claimed he "loved" John--according to John, in any case. It se...
Well, perhaps salus is better as a word from which "salvation" is derived, which is to say "safety." So, believe in Jesus and you'll be safe in the af...
Given the circumstances, I think its more likely the Statue of Liberty was intended to be a representation of the Roman goddess Libertas, whose temple...
I have enough laws to deal with, thank you, and so will decline to read and comment on this one, which seems rather silly according to the blurb appea...
Well, no doubt I have a right to disagree with you, and you have a duty not to infringe on that right. So, that's the end of that, I suppose. Who knew...
There is a difference, though, between "I have a right to be treated with dignity" and "I should treat you with dignity." In the first sentence, the s...
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