The spirituality and immortality of the soul establish that the state cannot be the source or fount of the most fundamental rights, and that it is illegitimate to subordinate the person entirely to the ends of the state.
natural rights of man -> God
inalienable rights of man -> God
sacred rights of man -> God
People do not just want a pleasant life, they want a pleasant life that they in some way deserve.
Dicey effectively makes parliamentary sovereignty to be the total subordination of every tribunal to Parliament when the latter acts formally as such.
No legal system in existence has a single well-defined 'rule of recognition'; recognition may not be regular or explicit; where there is any rule of recognition, it is more like a family of rules in complicated and loose relationships; there is never completely unified agreement about them; senior officials are usually operating in ways that suggest analogy and overlap rather than shared agreement.
A legal system, like a living thing, will eventually expel any purported law that has insufficient analogy or means of integration with the rest of itself.
Citizens are the primary enforcers of law, enforcing them on themselves and to a lesser extent on those around them.
Volitional differences are never overcome by the clash of opinions or any similar kind of friction.
our body as physically existing, as continually sensed, as attentively sensed, as continually imagined, as attentively imagined
our body as memory device -- we don't have to continually recollect our body's posture and position (e.g.) but often use these to remind ourselves of what we are doing -- if I get distracted, I can come back and say, "OK, why did I pick up this pen?"
Schaff on the Petrine Confession (HAC pp. 350-355) is quite good. What he chiefly misses from a Catholic perspective is that Christ's promise indicates that 'foundation' is not a temporal origin (indeed, as we would also gather from the most reasonable interpretation of the word itself, and thepermanent title given to Peter, so that Simon becomes Simon Rock just as Jesus is Jesus Anointed).
He is also good on Peter in Rome (HAC pp. 362-377), a topic on which he attempts to develop an evidence-guided position between extreme Protestant and extreme Catholic views; it is an imperfect solution, but an excellent attempt.
"A work of art has to be seen in many different lights and to test itself against many different kinds of capacity and experience before it finds its level." C. S. Lewis
Interpreting Mk 13:32 as a flat claim of ignorance doesn't make much sense in context, particularly of the man on a journey analogy to which it is directly tied.
Augustine in various places compares Mk 13:32 to places in the OT apparently implicating nonknowledge of God (Gn 22:12, Dn 13:3).
The piety of a society is often associated with a willingness to maintain the institutions that unify the society.
poetry as "the universal symbolical art" (Schlegel)
Designs are constructed from material constraints, functions, and values, which when organized constitute solutions to problems.
no intrinsic limitations as to being: simplicity, immutability
no extrinsic limitations as to being: aseity, infinity, immateriality
no intrinsic limitations as to ontic presence: immensity, eternity
no extrinsic limitations as to ontic presence
--- --- (1) as to measure of presence itself: alocality, atemporality
--- --- (2) as to measure of that to which it is present: omnipresence, omnitemporality
no intrinsic limitations as to moral and jural presence: sublimity, sovereignty
no intrinsic limitations as to sacral presence: glory
no extrinsic limitations as to moral, jural, and sacral presence: sanctity
"If the government of the Church could be defined, it might be called an immense aristocracy, directed by an oligarchical power placed in the hands of an absolute king, whose duty is to perpetually offer himself in holocaust for the salvation of the people." Donoso Cortes
"The Church is love and will burn the world in love."
"The supernatural is above us, without us, and within us. The supernatural surrounds the natural, and permeates through all its parts."
"When we say of one being that it has understanding and will, and of another that it is free, we say the same thing of both, but expressed in two different ways."
"The world demands as its ground a God who need not have made it." E. L. Mascall
One may by mercy uphold justice, as when one pays for another what is due.
God as that whose presence makes all other presences possible
We only think of time having a forward and backward because counting numbers do.
Time as such has order and not direction, properly speaking; we use direction to symbolize order when we analogize temporal measurements to lines and include caused, especially deliberately imposed, incipits and desinits.
Free will is the personal power of attaining to contingent good.
People regularly use equality as a justification for not helping others; the same is true of liberty.
One Welsh Triad says that Cadoc, Illtyd, and Peredur became Keepers of the Grail.
Causation is implicit in being.
Being is open to being, truth is seed of truth, goodness sparks goodness. These are imitations and reflections of divine creation.
The analogy between sin and dying is worth more consideration than it is usually given.
"Everything purely human Christianity attracts, develops, and perfects." Schaff
diakonia
of the word: Acts 6:4
of the Spirit: 2 Cor 3:8
of justice: 2 Cor 3:9
of restoration: 2 Cor 5:18
In understanding the Eucharist as commemoration, one must recognize that in the Old Testament, certain forms of prayer are treated as a kind of shared or public memory.
The priest by sacramental character represents Christ as Priest, the bishop by sacramental characer represents Christ as High Priest and Head.
Matthew, Hebrews, James, and Jude make a pretty good representation of the spectrum of fourth-century Judaism.
There is a tension in the first two sentences of Hume's Treatise, which tells us that all perceptions of the mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, and the difference between the two is a matter of degree. Hume does admit this oddity, but claims that they are "in general very different" so that it is still makes sense to rank them as distinct. This however does not suffice to address the scruple, particularly given how Hume relates the two in the copy principle.
The Eucharist is not an 'encounter' but a union.
Christ deliberately made apostolic testimony essential to knowing Him, an apostolic testimony not merely direct but also for us indirect and mediated through others. It is a grave error to think one can leap over it.
Democratic societies turn everything into aesthetics.
Hypocrites will be found whenever there is an appearance of the divine.
The book of Revelation is an unveiling in vision of what is behind history.
'Worldbuilding' is an exploration of the preconditions and possibilities for narrative (which is distinct from the preconditions and possibilities *of* narrative).
All human beings have a protective resistance to wholehearted relationships.
Nothing about divine love requires that God love us one way rather than another; indeed, as divine love is wholly free, the ways God can love us surpass all human conceiving.
We improve common sense by increasing experience and improving classifications in light of experience and practice.
"Not even a deterministic (nonstochastic) law statement describes only what is actually the case: *every law statement describes possibles* -- without of course the help of modal operators." Bunge
(he links this to the fact that laws identify possible behavior depending on initial conditions)
There is a weirdly schizophrenic character to everything Bunge writes; he will develop an interesting formal system and give it an interpretation on the most vague and inadequate grounds; at times he will discuss scientific practice in an interesting way and then refer it to a formal system whose adequacy in describing that practice is nowhere established.
Bunge's definition of the cell (Def 3.2) seems to require us to say that biological cells are not Bungian cells, due to mitochondria being both components and biosystems. Indeed, this seems to highlight the flaw in Bunge's entire approach to the sciences; however Bunge's definitions may fit a given state of inquiry, eventually many of the things defined become fixed ostensively, not by abstract definitions. The cell is the cell, whether it lacks components that are biosystems or not.
As probability is abstraction from finite frequences (coins, marbles, etc.), a serious interpretation of probability should simply be / reduce to the frequency itnerpretation in such cases, which are the anchoring cases of the theory.
Huntington's df of the point: a sphere such that it includes no other sphere
Introspection includes environmental factors in its object; we do nto have introspection of every thought but introspection of, e.g., thinking of a dog. Thus the object of introspection is not identical to the object of brain examination, although the two can be correlated in various ways. Thus far, at least, the dualist is right.
Contiguity is inferred, not directly experienced, and is inferred on causal grounds. If I see two things, I must distinguish apparent contiguity (e.g., due to perspective) from real contiguity by means of causes.
What we call reciprocal action or interaction is the cooperative production of an effect.
All scientific explanation grows in a soil of everyday, common-sense explanation.
The history of science shows that scientific methods diversify about as fast as they unify, and that fields multiply about as fast as they jump together in consilience.
Animal learning involves many subsystems of the organism, including digestion and muscle development.
The external world is that which continues to exist independently of an contrastively to our minds, but each of these three admits of different kinds and variations.
Physical laws are not propositions but systems.
"...every physical theory presupposes the *philosophical hypotheses* that there are physical objects (mind-independent things), that most of them are imperceptible (Hertz 1894), and that some of them are available if only in part (Thomson 1963). Should these hypotheses be dropped we would turn to introspection and mysticism." Bunge
"The effective approach to problems is both creative and critical."
causes as productive vs causes as historical ingredients
Much great art involves bringing out the glory of the simple.
Teaching is a poetical art, using analogy, metaphor, and example to convey the universal.
Most scientific theories have a 'pictorial' element, namely, abstract representation of concrete experiments to which things outside of the experiment are analogous or assimilated.
Hypothetico-deductive structure is a format into which scientific theories are forced, not the natural form of scientific theories.
Most metaphorical statements are no more ambiguous than most literal statements.
Pr 9:1 literally says, "Wisdoms [hakhemot] has built her house"; the plural perhaps indicates the highest sort of wisdom.
the serpent's question: Why did God allow there to be wrong?
surreal numbers as the nodes of the complete infinite binary tree
free will as a capacity for graciously receiving grace, of choosing aspects of one's relation to God
The analogy between art and nature is essential to the development of many arts.
(1) Human reason requires testimony.
(2) Human independence requires assistance.
(3) Human autarchy requires providence.
The 'tone' or 'coloring' of a term is often what relates it to its context in such a way that its sense and reference can be properly determined.
Interactions are overlaps of changes, where part of one change is also part of another change.
forces as negative potential energy gradients
You should never try to steal from physicists what you have not earned in philosophy of physics; physicalists regularly violate this principle.
