Friday, November 27, 2009

Anderson’s Pure

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Contemporary academic philosophers tend to be dismissive of the idea that philosophy has any intrinsic moral or spiritual significance. To b...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

McInerny on De Koninck

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Pietas and gratitude. On this fine Thanksgiving Day, you could do worse than spend a few moments reading what the esteemed Ralph McInerny r...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Oderberg contra Strawson on act and potency

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Some time back I linked to my Philosopher’s Digest review of Galen Strawson’s Analysis article “The identity of the categorical and the d...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Earman and Oderberg on miracles

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Bill Vallicella quotes John Earman : ...if a miracle is a violation of a law of nature, then whether or not the violation is due to the inte...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Plato’s affinity argument

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In an earlier post I suggested that the arguments of great philosophers of the past need to be understood, not only in the context of their...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

An ambiguous conservative

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It appears The American Conservative is making some of their archived content freely available online. For those who might be interested, h...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Final causality and Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover

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In several recent posts I have had reason to refer to a key difference between Aristotle and Aquinas: Aquinas holds that though final causes...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Sartre on theism and morality

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If God is dead, is everything permitted? Yes and no. There is a connection between the existence of God and the possibility of morality, but...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Martin on sexual virtue

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In his book Practical Ethics , Peter Singer assures us that “sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve consi...
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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Beckwith on Thomism and ID

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Over at his Return to Rome blog , my friend and occasional co-blogger Frank Beckwith weighs in on the Thomism vs. Intelligent Design contro...
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Friday, November 6, 2009

The Greek atomists and the god of Paley

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In recent posts, I have been defending classical theism and criticizing Paley-style “design arguments” as time wasters at best and theologi...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

The metaphysics of jazz

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It wouldn’t be right to let 2009 pass without a mention of the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s classic album Kind of Blue . Just beautiful...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The trouble with William Paley

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In The Last Superstition and elsewhere, I have been very critical of both William Paley of “design argument” fame and of contemporary Intel...
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Sunday, November 1, 2009

William Lane Craig on divine simplicity

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The doctrine of divine simplicity holds that God is in no way composed of parts. Not only is God incorporeal and immaterial, and thus not co...
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