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On Morality
I’ve always thought morality to be pretty simple: follow the Golden Rule or as Kant said, “act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should be universal law.” Or,...
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Goodness
In the novel Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy has the character Levin say: ‘If goodness has a cause it is no longer goodness; if it has consequences, or rewards it is not goodness either.’ Since Leo based...
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On the Life and Death of Satan
I was reading recently about how the idea of Satan came about. In the early middle ages St. Augustine determined that, as a result of Adam’s original sin and seeing as how we’re all descendants of...
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The Post-Modern Man
I-Ron, the post-modern man, was telling me the other day he never misses church on Sundays even though he doesn’t believe in God. He said he enjoys the company of the faithful while knowing he will...
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Mother Nature/Animal Nature
I’m worried about Mother Earth. It’s not like I need air to breathe or food to eat or water to drink like those sentient beings of flesh and blood but our Mother as a living, breathing organism needs...
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