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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Active & Passive Intellect

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. As in…

Culture Philosophy

Sex Slavery In Germany?

There are, as everybody knows, various degrees of slavery, from the brutal chattel-and-chains variety, to indentured servitude, to that which isn't official but which binds its victims to their bread…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Everybody Has A Different Intellect

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We're back…

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The Trolley Problem & Driverless Cars

We're back on our Edge series, What scientific concept ought to be better known. Today's entry is from Daniel Rockmore on the "Trolley Problem." This is an over-worked philosophical or…

Philosophy

AI Does Not Pose A Challenge To Christianity

The theology and philosophy of the Atlantic article "Is AI a Threat to Christianity?" proves that it was all downhill after the schoolmen in the sad twilight of the Middle…

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Miracles And Possible Explanations

From Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory: 'And I dare say the first time you saw a man raised from the dead you might think so too.' He giggled…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Does Not Share One Soul

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Nobody alive…

Philosophy Statistics

Randomness & God

Reader Omer Abid points us to Serkan Zorba's article "God is Random: A New Perspective on Evolution and Creationism", which has concepts of interest to all of us (Abid asked…

Johnno on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
Hey Mr. Rightful Freedom. Please quote for us the passages DIRECTLY AFTER, starting from Matthew 25:26, which you DELIBERATELY ended…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 17, 2024
Received Breaking the Law of Averages, read the preface, started first chapter -- this is great, looks like the thing…
C-Marie on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
Very interesting!! Thank you! God bless, C-Marie
Chaeremon on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
peace is a moving target, always, forever, eternally; how can there be equality?
Pk on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
The Slippery Slope Fallacy is the assumption that you are starting from and good, stable landing when, instead, we are…