Siris

A side issue arose in a thread at "Feminist Philosophers" over the best way to look at Hume's Enquiries. I made the point tha...

There are three ways in which a statement, especially a disputable statement, can be placed before mankind. The first is to assert it by av...

The general opinion of mankind has some authority in all cases; but in this of morals it is perfectly infallible. Nor is it less infallible,...

If a miracle is not exceptional, it is not even miraculous. Nobody was ever taught by any sane creed to count upon or expect anything but t...

* The diocesan phase of the cause of canonization for Jérôme Lejeune is nearly completed . Lejeune, who died in 1994, was one of the twentie...

Marriage is a duel to the death, which no man of honour should decline. Source: Manalive

There has been a recent dust-up over this article in the Journal of Medical Ethics arguing that infanticide is acceptable, and, indeed, is ...