The Ordeal of Consciousness

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Kalb: "ordered liberty" means “liberty ordered toward the realization of a substantive conception of the good."

Regis Martin, in Crisis, considers whether the abolition of God portends the annihilation of Man. Over at his place, Edward Feser continues his adventures in the old atheism, Part II: Sartre. R. R. Reno explore significance of the role that a fear of discrimination plays in the maintenance of political power and why such a politics requires an ever-expanding field of discrimination, in… [ 108 more words ]

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This is the first of a series of talks on the social and political philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, presented by the Catholic and Dominican Institute of Mount Saint Mary College this June, at the Sixth Annual Philosophy Workshop. In this lecture, Professor Steven Long elaborates the idea of the common good, distinguished from individual private good, and its relation to justice, law, and political community.

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Over at Public Discourse, Sherif Girgis has two articles on contraception, on The Historic Christian Teaching Against Contraception: A Defense, and Papal Infallibility and Moral Witness.There are also articles by Scott Yenor on Why Autonomy Cannot Explain Marriage and Family Life and John Skalko on Homosexuality and Bad Arguments, that are well worth reading too. Matt Briggs explains the ins and outs of [ 173 more words ]

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In Parliament is the proper place for enacting laws, Michael Kirby provides ten reasons to oppose a plebiscite on the redefinition of marriage, in particular, and plebiscites in general. Let's attend to them directly: The Constitution provides for a parliamentary system of representative government. A plebiscite, as a precondition to legislation, is a totally exceptional procedure with no foothold in the Constitution. [ 1572 more words. ]

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Lecture: Q&A: This is a lecture that Eleonore Stump gave on the 8 February 2016 at the University of St Andrews in which she addresses and compares two different views of metaphysics, the first which she calls the secular scientific picture (SSP), and, the second, which is the metaphysics of Aquinas, as it applies to the issue of human freedom. In the process of doing so, she draws out a tension in the former where theorists of SSP might nevertheless reject reductionism/ scientism.

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At his place, Ed Feser gives the "story of - - not exactly the glory -- of modern love". Daniel Mattson on the enduring brilliance of the natural moral law, Anne Maloney on the catastrophe for young women of the Sexual Revolution, and Anthony Esolen on the uses of disgust, all at Crisis. Here are two reviews of Darío Fernández-Morera's [ 155 more words. ]

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