Capitalism, they say, contains in itself the seeds of its own destruction, because the general prosperity it creates finances the emergence of a leisure class of intellectuals whose main occupation is denouncing capitalism.
G.A. Cohen was one such miscreant.
For the health of society, he must be bled. And by the end of my eBook, he is an exsanguinated corpse.
David Friedman tries to fix with “what’s wrong with the world” and fails miserably.
Now, all that was left of mighty Rawls was a twisted, withered husk.
I needed to understand whatever memories lingered within the creature’s rotting mass.
Only by making contact with the gargantuan tendrils connected directly to his cortex could I learn his secrets.
Yet his countless minions, which seemed to be feeding from his dead husk, would prove somewhat… problematic.
I’m giving both sides of the abortion debate, in their fiery fervor, a cold bath of reason.
Come swim under the ice and see this important issue in a new and clear light.
The problem of evil is often tackled via a free will defense. But isn’t there free will in heaven also? If so, why aren’t we already there? If not, what is its value?
The notion of free will must be rightly understood if this puzzle is to be solved.
This universe is not our true home. Why then are we here? If men live only one life as Christianity affirms, then perhaps this is a natural place to get one’s eternal life started.
If, however, as I think, there is something to the doctrines of metempsychosis and suchlike, then we must admit that the main answer is to improve in all of our faculties.
But in that case, this universe is somewhat of a simulation: a boot camp for both the soul and the body.
Climate change, such as it is, for the newly elected Sandy is only a cloak for her real interest: communizing the United States.
The text of her “Green New Deal,” once understood, leaves no doubt of her real designs.
Socialism is an unnatural attempt to change the entire world into an enforced universal egalitarian slavery.
It bears no relation to ancient tribal equality which was a legitimate and essential economic stage.
Socialism tries to realize envy, which can be primitive or more sophisticated; but it’s destructive in both guises.
The philosopher Todd May is right that human extinction would be a tragedy, though not for the reasons he gives.
Contra May, the destruction of the human race would be the worst possible thing this universe could experience.
Finally, animal suffering, which for May constitutes a reason to welcome our demise, (1) is largely irrelevant, (2) is justified, and (3) would not diminish, and might even increase, even if the human race came to an end.
St. Thomas locates the essence of happiness in an activity, and the essence of perfect happiness in the activity of the intellect at contemplating God “seen in His essence.”
The enjoyment of happiness is for him a proper accident, i.e., a common though not essential property of it.
But does that neglect our “trinities within”? And wouldn’t it follow from this opinion that a man who was seeing God but did not enjoy it would still be happy?