Please forgive the delay in correspondence. 1) Yes, emphatically so! So very many have been convinced or had their minds changed. The history of the w...
Speaking honestly, it was for me too, for a few years when I discovered philosophical theology and the joys of exploring the metaphysics of God, his s...
True faith is mystical union with our Creator, where light from His grace shines onto and off of a true believer's face. It's not proselytizing or phi...
It always amazes me when I hear this line peddled, as though no philosophic or scientific tests can be applied to falsify a religion. But to hear this...
Is it failing? It has failed, utterly and completely. Take a glace at public discourse, popular culture, politics, entertainment. The word that always...
This is exactly right. There are a zillion life coach/mentors/instructors/teacher online which barely have any grasp of classical logic, rhetoric, and...
P.s. there exists an egregious paradox which we all see as plain as day. That is that a degree is both very important and very unimportant. It's impor...
Education has absolutely lost its way. See Dorothy Sayers' essay, 'The Lost Tools of Learning' http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html Also check some of ...
The notion of original sin is silly. Add to it the fact that God ‘condescended’ to sacrifice himself (as Christ) for our lost and fallen selves is sil...
It means that God is not constructing moral laws or designing the contours of what is normative arbitrarily, He is himself that standard, that locus. ...
My response to Euthyphro is stolen from Aquinas. That it is a false dilemma, in that God acts consistently with his essential character, which is the ...
Well wait a minute, I think we have come back round to the beginning again. In a weak sense, 'rational enterprise' sounds like something humans do 'cr...
I am aware of this great revival of a great moral theory! - indeed the most sound and flexible secular moral theory on offer. I say I am 'aware', but ...
I'm a big fan of virtue ethics. Studied it lightly, but still retain the fundamentals I think. You're right I blatantly missed the option. However, do...
But this is perfectly explainable when we distinguish between epistemological and ontological morality. As a theist I agree with many of the ethical h...
I can understand your invocation of a universal/collective type of human reasoning to apprehend and intuit morality as human persons, but it still see...
Read and think very slowly. Reject the schizophrenic and hasty reading habits of modern people. Set at least 1-2 hours aside everyday for serious and ...
I appreciate this criticism. But I'm not rejecting the authority of reason, reason is all we have to fall back on as philosophers. I'm making the poin...
This is very new for me. I'm not going to attempt to respond critically, only to ask how does the Buddhist know that 'all intentional actions have con...
Again what your talking about is moral epistemology, not moral ontology. Many moral teachers may teach many different moral doctrines. This does not i...
Very interesting. But how are 'moral facts held to be discovered in reason'? Again, its not that reason can apprehend moral truths, we both agree on t...
Interesting. I agree that intuition is how we directly apprehend the moral realm and a SENSE of moral objectivity. Viz. we feel the phenomenological w...
We've lost the tools of learning, to steal Dorothy Sayer's phrase. We are producing information parrots and research people not virtuous and wise citi...
You write Happiness can only be a positive emotional state induced by the biochemicals. This is a scientific fact. False. Happiness is a moral theoret...
I disagree. Only relatively recently has relativism about truth come into fashion. The consensus of philosophers in the tradition is that there exists...
In response to the OP 1) I'm not sure why your 'gut' feelings and subjective/psychological/emotional antagonisms with theism give you anything like a ...
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