Dignity and Distance
Joseph R. Wood: Whether the view of human dignity is philosophical or poetic, we must see others as God sees us: at a distance, and up close.
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Joseph R. Wood: Whether the view of human dignity is philosophical or poetic, we must see others as God sees us: at a distance, and up close.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 15, 2021 | Abortion, Alasdair MacIntyre, Catholic news, Free Access, Justice, News | 0 |
Famed ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre called upon academia and other Catholics and intellectuals, to invest in the “expensive conversation” about justice, and to sharpen their understanding of what constitutes human dignity. MacIntyre, whose teaching career spans 70 years and includes some of the most important books on virtue ethics such as “After Virtue” and “Dependent Rational
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Since the ancient Greeks, there have generally been two opposing impulses for political thought. The first is summed up in Plato’s Republic, the second in Aristotle’s polis. The republic is large and relies on the […]
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Casey Chalk reviews the new book by Protestant Carl R. Trueman. It argues for “natural law and a high view of the physical body.”
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The Left, Republicans warned in this year’s election, hate liberty. “They want to steal your liberty, your freedom,” declared prominent former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle during an August 24th speech at the Republican National […]
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Carl R. Trueman (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. A church historian and prolific Evangelical author (he is a member of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church), Trueman […]
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“The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.’ Let it hear something of the rights of God.” — Pope Leo XIII Like all the philosophers of the Enlightenment, John Locke believed that morality could be justified on purely rational grounds. Like all the philosophers of the Enlightenment, he was also wary of […]
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