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Democracy, Information Technology, And Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr Jan 2021

Democracy, Information Technology, And Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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Proclus‘ Multi-Level Ontology: The Meaning Of Monads Vs. A Tale Told By Thomists, Eric Perl Feb 2020

Proclus‘ Multi-Level Ontology: The Meaning Of Monads Vs. A Tale Told By Thomists, Eric Perl

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Thomists regularly claim that Aquinas 'corrects' Proclus and the Platonists by eliminating intermediary terms between the first principle and sensible particulars, regarding such distinct terms as illegitimately hypostatized universals and instead locating them without distinction in God as 'ipsum esse'. But Platonic ideas and Procline monads are not hypostatized universals, but rather the ontological conditions for universal predication, not univocal with the attributes of particulars. They must be really distinct in order to ground the differences between kinds of things in the world. As such they are prior to particulars and posterior to the first principle, hence, 'intermediate.' They are …


Philosophy And Theology: Transgender Issues, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2020

Philosophy And Theology: Transgender Issues, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Gamete Donation, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2020

Philosophy And Theology: Gamete Donation, Christopher Kaczor

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Moschella's thesis is that "gamete donation is inherently wrong insofar as it involves acting in a way that is highly likely to result in the acquisition of a non-transferable obligation to another person, without being willing to fulfill that obligation should it arise" (423). © 2021 The National Catholic Bioethics Center 829 Philosophy and Theology Some people think of gamete donation as a morally neutral act or even a praiseworthy act, like blood donation. In examining the ethics of gamete donation, Moschella looks to the nature of the relationship between children and parents, as compared with the relationship between biological …


Philosophy And Theology: Does Greater Access To Contraception Reduce Abortion?, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2020

Philosophy And Theology: Does Greater Access To Contraception Reduce Abortion?, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Mindfulness, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2020

Philosophy And Theology: Mindfulness, Christopher Kaczor

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Faith And Reason And The Consistent Ethic Of Life, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2020

Faith And Reason And The Consistent Ethic Of Life, Christopher Kaczor

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The rich text of Evangelium vitae raises numerous themes of great importance, perhaps even greater importance now than at the time of its publication in 1995. This reflection looks at the relationship of faith and reason in Pope St. John Paul II’s Encyclical, and how both faith and reason help us to understand better the relationship among various issues important to the life and flourishing of the human person.


Defining Humility: The Scope Of Humility, Jason Baehr Jan 2020

Defining Humility: The Scope Of Humility, Jason Baehr

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Becoming Honest: Why We Lie And What Can Be Done About It, Steven L. Porter, Jason Baehr Jan 2020

Becoming Honest: Why We Lie And What Can Be Done About It, Steven L. Porter, Jason Baehr

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The Structure Of An Intellectual Vice, Jason Baehr Jan 2020

The Structure Of An Intellectual Vice, Jason Baehr

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Wisdom, Suffering, And Humility, Jason Baehr Jan 2019

Wisdom, Suffering, And Humility, Jason Baehr

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Philosophy And Theology: Conscientious Objection In Europe And Mexico, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2019

Philosophy And Theology: Conscientious Objection In Europe And Mexico, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Life-Limiting Fetal Anomaly, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2019

Philosophy And Theology: Life-Limiting Fetal Anomaly, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Savulescu And Schuklenk On Conscientious Objection, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2019

Philosophy And Theology: Savulescu And Schuklenk On Conscientious Objection, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Is Birth Ethically Relevant?, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2019

Philosophy And Theology: Is Birth Ethically Relevant?, Christopher Kaczor

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Do You Long For Having Your Heart Interlinked?, Timothy Shanahan Jan 2019

Do You Long For Having Your Heart Interlinked?, Timothy Shanahan

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Virtue Epistemology, Virtue Ethics, And The Structure Of Virtue, Jason Baehr Jan 2019

Virtue Epistemology, Virtue Ethics, And The Structure Of Virtue, Jason Baehr

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Contemporary virtue epistemology examines the cognitive life with an eye to the epistemic excellences or "intellectual virtues" of knowing subjects (Battaly 2008). It was inspired by virtue ethics, which emphasizes moral virtues and their centrality to acting and living well. This chapter begins with an observation about an apparent structural asymmetry between virtue epistemology and virtue ethics. It considers whether, initial appearances notwithstanding, there is in fact a virtue ethical counterpart of reliabilist virtue epistemology. This leads to a somewhat narrower consideration, namely whether there is a counterpart of reliable cognitive faculties within our moral psychology. The chapter clarifies and …


Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, And The Aims Of Education, Jason Baehr Jan 2019

Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, And The Aims Of Education, Jason Baehr

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This chapter examines the relationship between critical thinking conceived of as educational ideal and intellectual virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual perseverance. It focuses on Harvey Siegel’s influential account of critical thinking, according to which critical thinking has two main components: a “reason assessment” component and a “critical spirit” component. The chapter argues, contra Siegel that intellectual virtues cut across both of these components. It considers some of Siegel’s recent arguments to the effect that critical thinking is the superior educational ideal. The concept of critical thinking is at least quasi-technical. This is evident in ordinary usage of …


Intellectual Virtues, Civility, And Public Discourse, Jason Baehr Jan 2019

Intellectual Virtues, Civility, And Public Discourse, Jason Baehr

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Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr Jan 2018

Intellectual Virtue, Jason Baehr

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With the advent of contemporary virtue epistemology, many philosophers of knowledge have turned their attention to intellectual virtues and their role in the life of the mind. This entry examines two general concepts of intellectual virtue and the theoretical uses to which they have been put. It is shown that “reliabilist” and “responsibilist” approaches to virtue epistemology, while emphasizing different aspects of cognition, are more closely aligned than they initially appear to be. The ethical significance of intellectual virtues is also considered. In particular, intellectual virtues are shown to occupy an important role in moral perception and practical reasoning.


Philosophy And Theology: The Egg And I: Conception And Identity, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2018

Philosophy And Theology: The Egg And I: Conception And Identity, Christopher Kaczor

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Flannery O’Connor And Religious Epistemology, Jason Baehr Jan 2018

Flannery O’Connor And Religious Epistemology, Jason Baehr

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What are the demands of religious inquiry? It can be tempting to think of these demands in strictly epistemic terms, e.g. as a function of the inquirer's background beliefs, cognitive faculties, natural cognitive ability, intellectual skills, and intellectual character. In this article, I extrapolate an alternative model of religious inquiry from three stories by the Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964). According to the model, a person's fitness for religious inquiry also depends on whether she possesses a certain moral posture. In particular, I argue that something like moral humility functions as an epistemic virtue in the theistic domain.


Philosophy And Theology: The Ethics Of Circumcision, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2018

Philosophy And Theology: The Ethics Of Circumcision, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Sex Reassignment Surgery, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2018

Philosophy And Theology: Sex Reassignment Surgery, Christopher Kaczor

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Philosophy And Theology: Chemerinski And Goodwin On Abortion, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2018

Philosophy And Theology: Chemerinski And Goodwin On Abortion, Christopher Kaczor

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Intellectual Creativity, Jason Baehr Jan 2018

Intellectual Creativity, Jason Baehr

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Intellectual Virtues And Truth, Understanding, And Wisdom, Jason Baehr Jan 2018

Intellectual Virtues And Truth, Understanding, And Wisdom, Jason Baehr

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This chapter addresses the proper end or aim of intellectual virtues. After distinguishing between two fundamentally different conceptions of intellectual virtue, the author considers the plausibility, with respect to each conception, of the “binary thesis,” according to which the proper aim of intellectual virtues is true belief and the avoidance of cognitive error. The author goes on to argue that if one understands intellectual virtues (as many virtue epistemologists do) as admirable traits of personal character—for example, as traits like curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual humility—then sophia or theoretical wisdom presents itself as a plausible way of understanding their …


How To Think Actuality? Schelling, Aristotle And The Problem Of The Pure Daß, Marcela Garcia Romero Jan 2018

How To Think Actuality? Schelling, Aristotle And The Problem Of The Pure Daß, Marcela Garcia Romero

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In this paper, I address a problem of Schelling’s late philosophy: the relation between negative and positive philosophy, and the role of the “pure Daß” in the transition from one to the other. While the so-called transition is a well-known and much discussed issue, recent Schelling scholarship has underlined the difficulties involved in the mere notion of pure Daß. I propose that we can avoid some of these difficulties by taking into account Schelling’s particular and original interpretation of Aristotle’s notion of actuality (energeia) and the way he applies this notion in his late negative philosophy.I would like to begin …


Intellectual Virtues And Educational Practice, Jason Baehr Jan 2017

Intellectual Virtues And Educational Practice, Jason Baehr

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Philosophy And Theology: Physicians, Not Conscripts: Conscientious Objection In Health Care, Christopher Kaczor Jan 2017

Philosophy And Theology: Physicians, Not Conscripts: Conscientious Objection In Health Care, Christopher Kaczor

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