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Last week, I discussed two articles criticizing the national conservative movement (if it's fair to call it that) and 'common good originalism.' The two articles appear in the current issue of The New Criterion, which is devoted in large part to a debate on the subject. In this post, I want to present two articles from the other side of the debate. They respond to the lead piece, by Kim
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Crispin Sartwell: Humans are animals. We need to get over it. It’s astonishing how relentlessly Western philosophy has strained to prove we are not squirrels. (Tim Enthoven | The New York Times) Humans Are Animals. Let’s Get Over It. By Crispin Sartwell | The New York Times | Feb. 28, 2021, 3:00 p.m. | Updated: 4:04 p.m. If one were to read through the prefaces and first paragraphs of the canonical works of Western philosophy, one might assume the discipline’s primary question to be this: What makes us humans so much better than all the other animals? Really, it’s astonishing h...
Irfan Ahmad on Islam today If Immanuel Kant was the “Papa Enlightenment Subject,” a phrase used by anthropologist William Mazzarella, literary critic Edward Said was arguably a loyal child of that Enlightenment. Credited with coining secular criticism, Said also viewed himself as a secular critic. Notably, the introduction and conclusion to his The World, The Text and the Critic are titled respectively as “Secular Criticism” and “Religious Criticism.” Lamenting that the contemporary critics had become “cleric,” Said invoked the Enlightenment for critique to “become a trul...
Regarding the use of vaccines developed using cells from aborted human persons By On 21 December 2020, Reuters reported on a document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announcing that the Vatican had signed off on the use of vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from tissues of aborted fetuses.[1] Though the CDF document stresses that it strongly desires the use of ethically acceptable vaccines, the document also emphasizes that the common good and the protection of the weakest and most exposed also hold equal claim. While CDF laments...