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Showing posts with label Human Life as Basic Good. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Life as Basic Good. Show all posts
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: The Seven Basic Values

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T O GET AT OTHER BASIC VALUES beyond knowledge, one has to cut through urges, drives, tendencies which perhaps in some way are aligned with ...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Life under the Microscope: Life v. The New Fates of "Having a Life"

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S OME OF THE OPPONENTS OF THE SANCTITY OF LIFE distinguish between life (which they equate generally with merely biological process) and ...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Life under the Microscope: The Tomfoolery of "Life Worth Living" Advocates

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T HE HORRIBLE DOCTRINES OF THOSE messengers of death that find life to be an instrumental good, and therefore subject to moral commerce and ...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Life under the Microscope: When, if Ever, is Life Not Worth Living?

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H UMAN LIFE HAS ITS TRAGIC INSTANCES; at its extremes, life can appear checked at every turn from flourishing. It can be burdensome, toilsom...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Life under the Microscope: The Sanctity of Life and Innocence

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H UMAN LIFE IS A GOOD INDEPENDENT of whether it it supports other human goods. Life alone, without regard to any other human goods, is good ...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Life under the Microscope: Belief in Flying Pigs and Life

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W E TALK ABOUT THE RIGHT TO LIFE AS IF IT IS A COMMONPLACE. It is writ in our foundational, organic documents that among the self-evident tr...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Life under the Microscope: Is Human Life a Rucksack?

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I S THERE SUCH A THING AS AN INTRINSIC GOOD? A good that exists and is unaffected by extrinsic circumstance, which is, in and of itself and ...