While we await the appearance of a news periodical determined to report news, we’ll settle for catharsis via semi-occasional comments on “all the views the misfits print.”[1] 1. It seems to me that an American newspaper ought to regard itself as honor bound, solemnly obliged to provide service to the American public. I know that’s … [Read more…]
Now, beloved friends of God, understand that I am not seeking in this brief 3–part post to explain everything. Though it may appear as if I’m meandering between and among diverse or even unrelated thoughts, I assure you I am trying, instead, to treat or explain ONE thing, viz: Why it is that refusal to … [Read more…]
It’s now anon. Back to morality as hate. Dissent, or refusal to approve of morally perverse behavior, is now regarded as “obviously hateful” –and it is seen to be such–for important reasons. But first note, I am not asserting, nor should it be asserted, that in an explanatory offering such as this, there is any … [Read more…]
Have you noticed that moral sensibility is identified or equated with HATE? Anyone with viable (i.e., alive) moral convictions; anyone unwilling to jettison the idea that Right and Wrong can and should or must be applied to sexual acts or propensities or habits, will be condemned as hateful. The range of sexual activities or choices … [Read more…]
A glance at the output of contemporary philosophy departments justifies this sardonic assessment: 20th century philosophy suffered so many hernias from pushing Kant against the wall, that the first decade of the next century has proved too short a time to calculate the damage, identify the lost trajectory, or get back to business. Publishing houses … [Read more…]