Last, if we are going to let in implicitly normative approaches—like Marxism—then there’s no reason to exclude religious views. “[S]chools of thought in our discipline unapologetically begin with particular intellectual and moral locations, commitments, presuppositions, and interests; some even...
Adam lay ybounden(15th century text, setting by Boris Ord, 1897-1961): Had there been no apple and no Fall, the carol says, there would be no Queen of heaven and no Incarnate Word (some theologians dispute this—God wants to be with us under any circumstances—but the “felix culpa”...
many religions have a centralized hierarchy to control the overall course. Religious socialism became the natural combination of two moral systems with the goal of helping the less fortunate and creating a better, less selfish society. By pointing out the similarities between socialism and religion, ...
The American minority, meanwhile, has spent the past week trying to cope with the shock and the horror of the Antichrist’s second coming (I use that name not in a mythical sense, but in a moral one, describing the Trump who in every respect is against the way of Jesus). Some have ...
It infiltrates public and political life with its ideology, realizing certain moral desires through proceduralization and universalization (Gauchet, 2005), which is the advantage of Catholicism entering the symbolic system of discourse. Previous analyses in this paper reveal that French media discourse ...
Freud’s claim that the developed ego is guided by qualitative hedonism helps to bring out just how in his late writings ‘the programme of the pleasure principle’ is compatible with non-egoistic, and hence, moral behavior. This compatibility is largely a consequence of the fact that happiness...
However stylised the action, theseare stories of moral struggle, about trying to behave honourably in unforgivingcircumstances. Moreover, Burke's prose is far more highly worked, aphoristic even, than thatusually to be found in police procedurals. Although it's richly descriptive of the ...
And our world remains cursed with the effects of the maldistribution of wealth. Innocent children still die in large numbers from malaria, malnutrition, and a host of other problems associated with preventable poverty. On the other hand, great moral voices -- secular and religious -- have ...
Designed for tired bodies, the Compline rite is short and to the point. It begins with the most succinct of bedtime prayers:The Lord Almighty grant us a peaceful night and a perfect end. The iambic rhythm of its three last words (two pairs of syllables with the stress on the second of...
My eyes filled with tears. Never before had a building made me weep. It was that sense of perfection I have found more often in nature, the homecoming when one arrives at the perfect moment, the perfect place, where the lack that drives our stories is satisfied, every desire met. ...