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What Is The Soul? Three Theories by walkertalkingin Foodforthought

[–]walkertalking[S] 0 points1 point ago

Love your username by the way! We have an article on Confederacy of Dunces and John Kennedy Toole on our blog if you're interested.

What Is The Soul? Three Theories by walkertalkingin philosophy

[–]walkertalking[S] 0 points1 point ago

If you're against lots of text to explain things clearly, r/philosophy is probably the wrong place for you to be haunting! Care to elaborate on your sweeping declaration that the soul is a "social construct"?

What Is The Soul? Three Theories by walkertalkingin Foodforthought

[–]walkertalking[S] 0 points1 point ago

That being said, I have a hard time entertaining the notion that non-materialist arguments are very useful in discerning the nature of reality.

Do you think materialism can adequately account for what classical civilizations easily recognized as immaterial or not of the causal order, namely, consciousness, art, emotion, and free will?

What Is The Soul? Three Theories by walkertalkingin philosophy

[–]walkertalking[S] 0 points1 point ago

Interesting - I would agree that either you're a materialist or you're not, and that either you think the world is made up of entirely psychical matter or you don't. In that sense, it is MMs against DDs/AAs. But there is something which unites MMs and DDs against AAs, namely the denial or repudiation of one aspect of our subjective life that is immediately observable to every person. The materialist is in the trap of has to somehow account for everything rich and lively and interesting about human life - consciousness, poetry, art, love, mysticism, feeling, thought, free will. I don't think materialism, to use your language, provide any explanatory value for these things we all know so well. The DD has the equal and opposite problem - it's busy trying to shake off the material world and the body. AAs, I will grant, have problems - but it is not a lack of accounting for things. If anything, it is accounting for them too well, and having to do some leg work to show exactly how this conception of soul differs from Descartes and Plato's dualism and brings it "to earth." For that I would turn to Aristotle's "De Anima" and Aquinas' "Summa".

Why I Became Catholic (and Not Buddhist) by mikfay2010in Catholicism

[–]walkertalking 1 point2 points ago

Fantastic article - thanks for sharing!

Justice and Mercy - How Can God Have Both? by walkertalkingin Christianity

[–]walkertalking 0 points1 point ago

The article doesn't claim the mercy IS justice, but that mercy builds on justice without contradicting it, and that in theory exemplifying both isn't incoherent. Your latter point looks like it was meant to be satire, but you summed it up nicely - I gather you have a problem with that explanation though?

The Church and Wealth by Axeliorin Catholicism

r/Catholicism, let's have a serious and respectful conversation about government recognition of gay marriage by dessinemoiunmoutonin Catholicism

[–]walkertalking 2 points3 points ago

For answers to these questions (as a Catholic), I would look no further than the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the United States Conferences of Catholic Bishops, and the leading Catholic political philosopher on the scene, Robert George:

Catechism: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c3a7.htm

USCCB: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/marriage/promotion-and-defense-of-marriage/frequently-asked-questions-on-defense-of-marriage.cfm#d14

"What Is Marriage?" By Robert George: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1722155

"Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles." - GK Chesterton

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