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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Butler on Social Progress
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Reasonable men therefore will look upon the general plan of our constitution, transmitted down to us by our ancestors, as sacred ; and conte...
Butler on Religious Institutions
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A visible church has also a further tendency to promote natural religion, as being an instituted method of education, originally intended to...
Butler on the State of Probation
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Now whoever will consider the thing, may clearly see, that the present world is peculiarly fit to be a state of discipline for this purpose,...
Butler on the Golden Rule
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It would very much prevent our being misled by this self-partiality, to reduce, that practical rule of our Saviour, "Whatsoever ye woul...
Butler on Talkers
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Today the Anglicans remember the incomparable Joseph Butler, that unmatched summit of early modern moral philosophy. This is certainly a day...
Friday, June 15, 2007
Abortion and Cases of Conscience
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Ophelia Benson : A thought experiment. Not the kidney one, a different (though similar) one. A woman is newly pregnant against her will; she...
Aquinas & Immutability
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At "The Fire and the Rose" D. W. Congden discusses Thomas Aquinas on immutability: Perhaps the most telling failure in Thomas’ pr...
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