In his open letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615), Galileo offered a defense of science against the prevailing heavy hand of religious orthodoxy: “But I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended to forgo their use and by some other
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All from the twenty-first century: * Sorcerers stealing or shrinking men’s penises in Congo. * Black magic murders in Brazil. * Witches beaten and humiliated in in southern India. * God punishes Haiti for its witchcraft and other immoralities. * Though progress in Ghana: a call “for the immediate abolition of witches camps and witchcraft
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Refreshing this story from Francis Kane, professor of philosophy and former colleague of Professor George Walsh at Salisbury State University, in a eulogy delivered November 21, 2001. The phone rang one Friday afternoon (I’ll never forget): “Fran, I’m going to be fired!” “George, you’re not going to be fired.” “Yes, I am! Something horrible has
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Cómo domesticar al terrorismo islámico: lecciones del pasado extremista cristiano Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Derrotar a un enemigo, como al politizado Islam, implica una batalla en varios frentes: policial, militar, diplomático, cultural y filosófico. Traducido al Español por María Marty. Para encontrar este y más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. Original article in English.
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Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo El papa Francisco nos ha dado varios indicios de su posición acerca del liberalismo, pero su negatividad es cada vez más evidente. En su mensaje a la Sesión Plenaria de la Pontificia Academia de Ciencias Sociales, las críticas fueron directas y, a veces, crudas. Si bien el Pontífice tuvo algunos
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How different are Stephen Hicks’s and Jordan Peterson’s views on the origins of the Enlightenment? Was Christianity essential or a hindrance?
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Bible, “Sodom and Gomorrah” and “Lot and His Daughters,” Genesis 19:1-38 (c. 500s-400s BCE). Condorcet, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1794). Leo Strauss, “German Nihilism” (1941).
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I’d like to know what was in his mind at that moment. Bathysaurus ferox (literally meaning “fierce deep-sea lizard”) lives by “burying itself on the deep seafloor, 3,300 to 8,200 feet (1,000 to 2,500 m) below the water’s surface. When unsuspecting prey swims by, B. ferox darts out of the sediment and snatches up the meal in its formidable
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