Martin, Some interesting thoughts! I do realize that there will never be a perfect government or society. Nor will there ever be one that fully achieves...
I believe that Aquinas is too complex and refined for social action. While his analysis may be intellectually elegant, they are not digestible for a populace...
Martin, I would agree with you, that the success of the US system and country, such as it is, is a manifestation of those elements that reflect to the greatest...
In Search of the Common Good The Catholic roots of American liberalism Lew Daly When the Republican Party won control of both houses of Congress in 2002, the...
At least one reason why the "common good" fell into disrepute is because it was used to justify hegemonic policies by the Church in the name of the common good...
Tracy Smith
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Jul 6, 2007 8:23 pm
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Tracy, What is the difference between "religious freedom" and license? What purpose does relgious freedom have to your mind? Ron ... because it ... the ... ...
Given the religious wars of the continent from say 1550 to 1750 particularly in Germany, and Anglican intolerance against various Protestant sects in England,...
Tracy Smith
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Jul 7, 2007 6:01 pm
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Tracy, I see no tolerance of religion in the Enlightenment West. In fact what we have is intolerance and suppression of religious expression and the rights of...
Dear Ron, I do not disagree with what you say, but allow me a nuance. Heidegger preached the existential crisis well following WWII as did Nietzsche before ...
Tracy Smith
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Jul 7, 2007 7:14 pm
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... and conversion. Tracy, what do you mean by a contextual reality? ... and pacifist Anabaptists. When did the colonists kill Anabaptists? ... legacy of the...
This was a very nice post, worth keeping as a reference. However, I would suggest a different reading of the medieval idea of "common good", one in which...
Ron, I just saw a movie about Chris Columbus. It seems a united all Catholic country conquered the moors and spread the Christian message to the new world. Joe...
Dear Ron, One should note that liberty of conscience developed primarily from persecution and ever became more tolerant and secular as a consequence. This we...
Tracy Smith
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Jul 9, 2007 4:01 pm
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Joe, What movie was that? The prevailing opinion is that a creeping anti-scientific fundamentalism caused the Muslims to atrophy technologically at a certain...
It was a Father Peyton movie Joe, What movie was that? ... From: Ron Criss <roncriss@...> To: aquinas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:49 am ...
... Here is a first draft which is not done jet. Although I strugle with some basic things, some of them are mentioned in the file. Could you please check if...
Judging by the erudition of some of the participants in this forum, I am out of my depth, and any thing I post here will probably come across as little more...
Seems to me that the only economic philosophy that is genuinely social and genuinely works for the common good is liberalism (i.e. free markets), or what today...
Judging by the erudition of some of the participants in this forum, I am out of my depth, and any thing I post here will probably come across as little more...
I'm posting this again with a formatting that is more suitable to plain text, because the formatting in the previous post was reduced to an unreadable blob....
It is amazing that liberalism or neo-liberalism is such an elastic term insofar as they can be applied to anything from socialism to capitalism that it seems...
Tracy Smith
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Aug 7, 2007 11:20 am
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I've written an article about this subject that was published in the New Scholasticism in the early 90s. Anyhow, for Aquinas, there are different degrees in...
Pibarad@...
Aug 7, 2007 12:27 pm
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Many of these distinctions aren’t really meaningful, imho. I think it is significant how many people call into the Michael Medved radio program who are full...
Dear John, thank you for the illustrations and particularly the maxim below. I agree in full. I have a question, given the nature of the "communitarianism"...
Tracy Smith
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Aug 7, 2007 1:52 pm
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Tracy, you asked my opinion about the relative claims of the common good and individual rights. I personally feel that the common good obviously trumps ...
Judy, what accounts for the fact that the will is sometimes engaged, and sometimes not? Does the will spontaneously "engage" at one time and not in another? Is...
Hi John, I remotely recall the behavior modification illustration I was given in a speech course in under graduate studies. Nuclear war and five people or so...
Tracy Smith
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Aug 7, 2007 9:34 pm
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Tracy, I think we are in violent agreement. ;-) We approach the problem from different angles, but you hint at the truth that upholding individual rights and...
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