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  1. zippy2006

    Egyptian Catholic clergy say interreligious ties are being derailed by ‘Fiducia’

    We are plagued by the immaturity of world leaders, and Francis is at the forefront. Will the situation improve? Will we find better leaders in the coming generations?
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    Can Revenge Ever Have a Justifiable Purpose?

    Did you read the first sentence of the OP?
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    Priest sues Indiana diocese after ‘no evidence’ found in sex abuse investigation

    Nienstedt is also waiting to be presented with the evidence. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/nienstedt-case-points-to-transparency
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    A Malebranche Quote for Consideration

    Okay thanks, that makes good sense. And do strong/moderate/weak refer to the certitude with which beliefs are held? So why don't you think the child is engaged in prima facie foundationalism? Here is your argument: If conceptual entities are being identified as intrinsic and valuable in the...
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    Is family a right or a privilege?

    I think the key here is that the father has a duty to his wife and children. The main problem is that the father is not fulfilling his duty. As far as Catholic teaching goes, this is what is most clear. Then when his wife leaves him we might ask whether he has a right to his child (or to...
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    A Malebranche Quote for Consideration

    Let me come back to this: It seems to me that foundationalism not only does not need to involve Cartesian certainty, but it also does not need to be complete. To use your word, it could be "piecemeal." I would say the idea behind the foundationalist structure is that claims are justified by...
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    Empathy, feminism, and the church [women’s ordination]

    This is precisely why recent forms of feminism are not taken seriously. The pity card is the antithesis of robust secular feminism.
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    A Malebranche Quote for Consideration

    You seem to think that if a system isn't complete then it isn't foundationalist, no? The idea seems to be that if I have a system that is not intended to be complete, then it must not be foundationalist in structure.
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    Does anyone know any clever ways to overcome gluttony and intemperance?

    I think this would be messy and would not prove to be worthwhile.
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    Does anyone know any clever ways to overcome gluttony and intemperance?

    The principles from Allen Carr's famous book, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, have been adapted for various other addictions. I see one adaptation is Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Emotional Eating. I didn't see any that were related to fast food in particular, although there is also one on...
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    Empathy, feminism, and the church [women’s ordination]

    Suppose there is mold in a bathroom, and someone says, "You have to be willing to clean up the bathroom, even to the point of overcoming your distaste for mold." Apparently you think this statement means that a distaste for mold is what caused the moldy bathroom. It didn't; if the bathroom had...
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    Empathy, feminism, and the church [women’s ordination]

    You think that, <we must stand against egalitarianism even though it will offend women pastors> implies, <empathy for struggling women causes women's ordination>? You're making logical errors. Undue empathy for women pastors will exacerbate the problem, but it does not follow that empathy for...
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    A Malebranche Quote for Consideration

    Okay, that makes sense and I think we are on the same page. I would follow SEP in cataloguing foundationalism and coherentism as pertaining to, "The Structure of Knowledge and Justification;" and internalism, externalism, reliabilism, evidentialism, et al. as pertaining to justification itself...
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    Empathy, feminism, and the church [women’s ordination]

    You are the one attacking a strawman. He is not saying that empathy for struggling women causes women's ordination. That is a bizarre reading. (Incidentally, it's clear to me that many who have criticized the article have not read the article.) The idea is that female ordination is a...
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    A Malebranche Quote for Consideration

    In #28 I noted that your critique of foundationalism has everything to do with certitude, and I asked whether you are really speaking about certitude. You said that you are not, but nowhere have you offered any critique of foundationalism that departs from a critique pertaining to certitude...
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    A Malebranche Quote for Consideration

    But we're back to that same question of certitude, which is different from foundationalism. Foundationalism pertains to structure, not certitude. An uncertain person is not by that fact a non-foundationalist. Foundationalism does implicate certitude in various ways given that the nature of...
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    Is Western Liberal Democracy inherently anti-Christ or Satanic?

    This is a good post, but I think you should give some positive arguments for these sorts of central claims. See also: Empathy, feminism, and the church [women’s ordination]
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    Empathy, feminism, and the church [women’s ordination]

    A good article; certainly worth considering. :oldthumbsup:
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    A Malebranche Quote for Consideration

    I think Nagel's points are relevant here: It is customary to make a broad distinction between the Cartesian, foundationalist approach to the justification of knowledge and the much looser, more holist approach supposedly characteristic of actual science, which dispenses with self-evident...
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    Could there be a sort of middle ground in the "married priest" issue?

    This would occur one way or another, and it seems to me that it is so natural as to not need any law or implementation. For example, a man who must support small children will have different duties than a celibate man, and if he is responsible then he will be mindful of these duties in...