It's a Sic et Nonderful Life

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Relativism and Truth

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Quests are meaningless without goals, a distinct “somewhere” which must be reached. This is true even if that goal is ultimately unattainab...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Departure from Dogmatism Need Not Mean Irreligion

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In "A World of Representations," I noted that the terms of our interaction with both social and non-social realities are depende...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

A Brief Reflection on Julian the Apostate

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Once upon a time there was a man born in the relatively auspicious position of being the future emperor of a decaying but still glorious R...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

A World of Representations

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The world you inhabit is first and foremost a collection of representations. The phenomena which both inhabit and constitute the space in...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Nature and Contraception

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In 1963, the Pontifical Commission on Birth Control was established to study the possibility of an alteration in the Church's teaching...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Three Points of Agreement in the Contraception Debate

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Contraception has taken on a strange quality in Catholicism. It is a litmus test, and many treat it as an easy way to categorize your pa...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

The Power of Names: A Critique of Realism

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In Plato's Cratylus , Socrates rejects the notion that the names of things have a divine origin. Language, as sign, is inferior to t...
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