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Comment on Newman and the Intellectual Tradition Conference by Kinga

Kinga — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:48:31 +0000

Dear Mr. MacGuire,

Thank you for writing! I will also make sure to include corrected dates with the next e-mail letter I sent to members of our Society.

Best regards,
Kinga Lipinska
President
Dead Philosophers Society

Comment on Newman and the Intellectual Tradition Conference by James MacGuire

James MacGuire — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:09:38 +0000

We are most grateful for the mention of our conference, but please note the correct dates are June 10-13. Please call Cindy Waterman with any questions or to register at (401) 643-1244 or email her at cwaterman@portsmouthabbey.org.

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Comment on On Friendship by Amy

Amy — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:26:20 +0000

Dave, you can see Conor’s video presentation of his work on his class website at http://kenrickparish.com/dante/pilgrims_in_progress.htm The other blogs in the class are also worth looking at if you’ve got an interest in Dante. A collection of video commentaries I’m developing at http://www.kenrickparish.com/dante/sfc.html is presently done up to the end of Purgatory. My class this semester enters Paradise on Easter Sunday, and the final 33 video reflections will be done just over a month later.

It was Conor’s class last semester that helped me prepare myself for this work, and Conor’s work in particular has provided me with invaluable insights.

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Comment on Human Dignity and Human Person by Sebastian Mahfood

Sebastian Mahfood — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:12:01 +0000

That’s true. I was at a conference last year, and one of the faculty from a denominational seminary lamented to me that a Catholic co-presenter told an audience that Catholics had more in common with Muslims on some things than they did with the folks from her institution. She was speaking about the abortion issue though she didn’t mention it by name and derided the Catholic for expressing that these kinds of issues were more important than our general unity under Christ. I spoke diplomatically and told her I hoped, too, that greater unity could be found among Christians. I didn’t tell her, however, that some things Christians propose as morally licit under the guise of their being hard questions of conscience that must be resolved on an individual level is actually a dodging of Christ’s call to be Holy.

Comment on On a relationship between moral theology and moral philosophy by Sebastian Mahfood

Sebastian Mahfood — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:44:11 +0000

Kinga makes a good point about there being no conflict between moral philosophy and moral theology provided we keep in perspective the function of philosophy within our theological context. St. Thomas certainly had no problem with moral philosophy and used it to support his moral theology. The distinction that we want to draw, of course, is that philosophy relies on human reason and human understanding while theology relies on our faith, which is our active response to divine revelation. There are certain things we can figure out on our own – like the immateriality of the soul – but there are certain things we cannot figure out on our own and have to be told – like the resurrection of the body. We can figure out on our own a great deal about the way we ought to enter into relationships with other persons – Aristotle proved that in his Ethics and Politics – but, as Kinga states, the things about which the philosophers speak bring us only to the fullness of natural happiness. It’s the things about which the theologians speak that bring us to the fullness of supernatural happiness. This is what makes theology greater than philosophy – indeed, it’s what makes philosophy the handmaiden of theology. For in the order of knowing, we understand first through our senses to develop percepts that lead to universal concepts, and we move from the first degree of abstraction to the third – shifting from physical being to being-qua-being. Aristotle makes a natural shift of this in his Metaphysics. It’ll take Christ to show us how to make a supernatural shift of this.

Thank you also, Dave, for your reflections on this. I’m interested in your opinion about Aristotle’s efforts at giving us a definition of good and evil if Plato was unable to give us one. If you get a chance to read Dante, you’ll find that the entire 100 cantos of the Comedy were designed to address the problem of evil and definitively resolve it. In Canto 30 of the Purgatorio, he’s tongue-lashed by Beatrice, the symbol of divine revelation, for seeking the answer among the pagan philosophers and for abandoning her in the process. Interesting things to speculate on, indeed.

Comment on On a relationship between moral theology and moral philosophy by Dave Kustra

Dave Kustra — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:28:48 +0000

In other words, since Christ affirmed that the greatest comandment is to love God with our whole heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves for God’s sake, and since the greatest virtue of all virtues is charity, then we could say that deontology and aretology converge in Christ and His followers. For this reason, I stive to carefully observe the Commandments and all that the Word of God has revealed, which we read about in Sacred Scripture and which is authentically interpreted by the magisterium which resides in the bishops, the successors of the apostles to whom Christ has given this teaching authority. I believe that to follow this revealed teaching is to live a life of virtue, which contributes to the common good and helps complete the act of meriting my eternal end in God, which was made possible by the grace Christ has effected through His passion and death.