Idea Review The Need for Moral Relativism Lorenzo Albacete, a Roman Catholic priest writing in The New York Times, has put forth a fascinating if flawed defense of Pope Benedict XVIth’s encyclical “God is Love”. His commentary correctly states that the resistance of many non-believers to religion centers around the idea of the intolerance of [...]
Archive for February, 2006
Religion and Intolerance
Posted in Essays, tagged free speech, moral relativism, Religion on February 6, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Muhammad Cartoons, Democracy and A Free Press
Posted in Essays, tagged free speech, Muhammad Cartoons, Religion on February 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
As several papers have indicated in their editorials, blasphemy in their view is not a crime.Indeed, one could argue that blasphemy is a responsibilty for any democratic society…. Whether their ultimate aim is to preserve democracy or not is impossible to guess, but there is little doubt that no country can claim to be free or democratically governed by its people unless it allows blasphemy.
Poetry and Truth
Posted in Essays, tagged philosophy of literature, Poetry, truth on February 2, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Analytic philosophers, in their presumption, assume either that such statements have no philosophical importance, or that they in fact are or contain analytic satements and thus can be dealt with rationally.Groundwork for a Poetic MetaphysicsEmotive statements are important, however, because emotions clearly affect how we percieve and interact with the world…. And though the dictionary meaning may be close enough to communicate and to do scientific work, it is manifestly false to say that such a definition is in any way true.The way in which we use the word truth is the key to understanding how we use language.
About Poetry
Posted in Poetry, tagged philosophy, Poetry on February 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
But great poets often produce mediocre work, bad poets can be surprisingly good, and very good poets are frequently no better than consistently above average – all of which is to say that it’s far more difficult to isolate “great poetry” than Kleinzahler (and most critics) might like to believe.
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