If masculinity is associated with a lack of cooperation, then yes, that makes sense. I'm not sure it is though. The idea of cooperation, of sacrifice ...
I've long thought that Francis Fukuyama's "Last Man Thesis" (oft neglected, because everyone focuses on the "End of History" thesis), goes a long way ...
Ah look, I found the perfect location in Egypt to set up shop. It looks vacant. Maybe in rough shape, but nothing some fresh paint and some elbow grea...
It makes me wonder, does any institution teach "philosophy as a way of life," as in, fully embracing the "ascetical education" that defined much of ph...
A "demonstration" would generally be a syllogism in this context, although obviously there is a sense in which demonstrations can be less formal. Poin...
Posterior Analytics 1.2 is the big discussion. It shows up in other parts of the Organon more tangentially. From the SEP article on "Aristotle's Logic...
The last book also reminded me of some interesting parallels between the Desert Fathers and Mothers and the early friars and existentialist thought, t...
I've been reading three related books: Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education (a comparison of monastic Christian education and the pagan education o...
I think the response here might be that this is an overly reductive account of the "stance." The adoption of a stance no doubt involves some propositi...
Would it shock you to learn that I find Hume's aesthetics to be horrifically deflationary as well? :rofl: Now Jacques Maritain, he outlines an approac...
I think one of the advantages of the tradition that Chesterton is writing out of is that it recognizes that determinism does not preclude self-determi...
I certainly think we can answer your questions in the affirmative. Here are just two historical examples: First, being very interested in Marxism, I h...
Ah yes, by "he" I meant Taylor. I feel like the empirical approaches to faith in the article have much to do with adopting the "disengaged" frame. It'...
Interesting. Charles Taylor covers some of the same ground in "A Secular Age." An interesting point he makes re empiricism/verification and its relati...
That was in reference to Quine though. "This system implies 'Aristotelian essentialism,' (at least as he understood it), therefore it is flawed." Now ...
I think it could be a helpful aid and comparison. If one accepts the idea that the goal of education is to produce virtue and help individuals to "be ...
A lot of weight must rest on intuition. A rational argument in support of rational argument must presuppose the authority of rational argument. You ca...
I didn't feel it warranted a new thread, but I also thought, re the complaints on "diversity" that the classical tradition probably lends itself to st...
But, if I am understanding your objections properly, wouldn't this equally apply to knowing that anyone else is having any experiences at all? How do ...
I think this is a good distinction. One deficiency in contemporary thought is to tend to collapse all knowledge into propositional belief (and to incl...
Bad judgement can apply to any interpretation of probability. Infamous examples include people being sent to prison for years, having their lives ruin...
Or more simply, if something is impossible, this is in some sense necessary, since the impossible, being "not possible" necessarily cannot occur. It w...
It might be expressible in terms of accessibility, (although I would say you are losing things); that's not really the point. Framing modality in term...
Obviously, you can rename a pet, but it seems accurate in the sense that something that has happened cannot possibly have not happened. It has already...
Europe is absolutely capable of defeating Russia in terms of war-making capacity. Russia, even at its more rapid pace of gains in recent months, would...
This is a good way to frame it. I think with art it's similar, but significantly more difficult. Often, when people point to difficulties in aesthetic...
It's not a strawman, everyone was pardoned. Nowhere in the article is there any indication that he does not think this is a good thing. Actually, he s...
:up: Yes, it's a strange sort of dogmatism, sometimes manifesting as the dogmatic presupposition that everyone who disagrees is necessarily a dogmatis...
First, I'll throw out a proposal: the general issue of "how do norms and duties evolve?" and "is there progress in this dimension?" (and "if there is ...
Well, first, I just realized this is a different anti-vaccine female doctor who was convicted. The one I recalled from earlier is literally on bodycam...
Because she's lying lol. It's incredibly common for people to make up politically biased lies about police. Just like police "invited Occupy Wall Stre...
Some of the findings supporting eugenics turned out to be wrong. Others are quite robust. For instance, some mental illnesses are indeed quite heritab...
Metaphysical optimism, the idea that we must live "in the best of all possible worlds," is, as far as I can tell, a concern that largely arises during...
So, St. Thomas's Five Ways demonstrate a lack of faith and are contrary to Church doctrine? Faith not being obtained through reason does not imply: "F...
And knowing is not an act of the intellect? Consider I Corinthians 2: Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have rec...
Au contraire, the argument has two premises inconsistent with doctrine (see the Catechism above). Faith does not require belief without reason-based t...
Nothing I've said is at odds with the official doctrines of the Church. I certainly didn't assert that "reason is the source of faith." I said explici...
Rational wish relates to the rational soul, but there are also desires of the sensible and vegetative soul. Still, we can make choices involving the i...
"Faith" there is the theological virtue of faith, which does not seem in line with OP's usage. This is the section on faith in the Catechism: It depen...
Yes, that is not the same thing as what OP is saying at all. The Catechism has an entire section on the role of apologetics. To claim the Catholic Chu...
The more I know/understand that my wife won't cheat on me the less faith I have in her? This seems bizarre to me. This would imply that I have more fa...
Which is not to say "faith is irrational" and "faith does not involve understanding," even from the standpoint of Evangelicals. St. Paul, like St. Luk...
If you have faith that your spouse will not cheat on you, does proper faith require that you not understand why they would not choose to cheat on you?...
Right, the will is not the intellect, that's what the passage gets at. However, Aristotle has motivating desire coming from appetite, spirit, and rati...
Sorry for any misunderstanding. There are, of course, views that deny any such sufficiency, on the grounds that cause is just observed constant conjun...
Well, you could follow Quine and try to get rid of proper names and say that: "there is some X that gandalfizes." Spade's article, which is quite good...
You might capture this in terms of accessibility, yes. The question then is if we might want some notion of physical necessity (i.e., related to chang...
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