It does not mean that you cannot have wild sex at a swinger’s party. It does mean that you need to be able to ask yourself if your gambling and drinking is having a negative impact on others. It does mean that you need to ask yourself if your sexual habits are having a negative i...
Questions of this kind will always excite interest in the sphere of speculation, and speculation is a necessity of the cultivated human intellect; but it does not seem to me that they can be profitably discussed in a treatise, the aim of which is simply to suggest principles for examining, ...
From Penrose’s claims we can only conclude that consciousness is not actually conscious; the observer is utterly irrelevant because he does notactually perceive anything…that is, he does not actuallythink. Which means that you are not really you; I am not really me. All human existence and ...
Quote: "We recognize," they wrote, "that the Church's teaching authority does not carry the same force when it deals with technical solutions involving particular means as it does when it speaks of principles or ends." With regard to abortion, the American bishops have had to weigh Catholic...
Where does the one end and the other begin? Or are they divided at all? And if they're not, should they be? These are hard questions. No wonder most of us in pubic life -- at least until recently -- preferred to stay away from them, heeding the biblical advice that if "hounded...
not potent enough to shift the incentives faced by strong individuals, these will tend to communicate more false things and less true things – whether we like it (as Nietzsche does) or not (as the rest of us don’t). What I strongly object to, however, is when Nietzsche clearly ...
do it. Some are doing it at this very moment. And not that it would be a sin if they did. God does not insist on political neutrality. But because it is the judgment of the bishops, and most of us Catholic laypeople, that it is not wise for prelates and politicians to be too clo...
The bishops' pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace," speaks directly to this point. Quote: "We recognize," they wrote, "that the Church's teaching authority does not carry the same force when it deals with technical solutions involving particular means as it does when it speaks of princi...
Quote: "We recognize," they wrote, "that the Church's teaching authority does not carry the same force when it deals with technical solutions involving particular means as it does when it speaks of principles or ends." With regard to abortion, the American bishops have had to weigh Catholic...
do it. Some are doing it at this very moment. And not that it would be a sin if they did. God does not insist on political neutrality. But because it is the judgment of the bishops, and most of us Catholic laypeople, that it is not wise for prelates and politicians to be too clo...