Philosophy, Ethics, Atheism, Nietzsche
In two previous posts, I have addressed current tensions in the Anglican church over gays. You can find those posts here and here. In reply to my second post on the topic, I received several excellent comments. I decided to reprint the one which challenged me and my reply to that comment here to keep [...]
Anthony Paul Smith has an interesting response (one that seems to be deeply influenced by Zizek’s remarks on those whom he dubs “liberal communists” here) to the Pope’s new encyclical. An excerpt from Smith: Apparently any use of technology in relation to life, from birth control to abortion to in vitro to cloning, is a [...]
Researchers suggest that we are less inclined to behave morally when we feel like we have already just done so and more likely to behave morally when we feel like we have just failed to do so. Click here for the account of the experiments from which this conclusion is drawn. Here’s the overall summation [...]
The recently deceased Robert S. McNamara, architect of the Vietnam War, once hit upon the harsh and unpleasantly outcome oriented way that in practice we judge actions of comparable type and from comparable motivation. “We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo — men, women and children,” Mr. McNamara recalled; some 900,000 Japanese civilians [...]
Could you describe the girl who sees with this perpsective as in love rather than exploited? Can this be an ethically healthy relationship? Is it formally very different from love-relationships oriented around economic security since the dawn of time? Or do power, class, and wealth disparities destroy any possibility for moral requisites of free consent [...]
In response to all the cheating in the news, Christian Progressive Liberal investigates: Well, I googled the word “infidelity” and I feared that my computer might crash from the results. I mean, there are damned WEBSITES devoted to infidelity – how to get your respective swerves on outside your marriage; providing blueprints for cheating, etc. [...]
With less money to keep them warm at night, people more desperate for love apparently: “They’re looking for something that’s genuine in a world that isn’t very secure,” said Bathsheba Birman, co-founder of the Chicago dating event Nerds at Heart. “With headlines full of why you can’t trust established institutions that you thought you could [...]
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