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Where does a society that denies absolute truth find the framework to discuss ethical issues anyway?

February 1, 2009 | By: doctor horton
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The firestorm of ethical discussion that has ensued in the media over the birth of the IVF octuplets has been interesting. In his blog Secondhand Smoke Wesley Smith offers some interesting commentary regarding the public discussion of ethics this story has produced. But when you think about it: How can there even be a question of laws [...]
February 1, 2009 | doctor horton | Leave a comment

G. K. Chesterton: On Relativism

March 27, 2008 | By: Mr. MacIan
Filed Under: Philosophy
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another.  Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth.  You might as well say that a certain philosophy [...]
March 27, 2008 | Mr. MacIan | Leave a comment