Thursday, November 16, 2017
Head vs hand
Let's take one piece from Anderson's manifesto.
The natural effect of exclusive headwork, as contradistinguished from handwork, is to beget a dislike for the latter. The only way to counteract this tendency is to educate the head and the hand at the same time.
Apply this to Catholic Christianity.
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Head:
To respond to this challenge, let me first situate the discussion in terms of a feature of St. Thomas’s teaching about capital punishment and killing more generally, a feature that is not of much, if any, concern to Feser and Bessette. Why did Aquinas think this? Surely his thought tracked much of the argumentation used in the case against capital punishment. Aquinas believed that human life is a basic good (ST I-II, q. 94, a. 2c), and that action contrary to that good is contrary to charity (ST II-II, q. 64, aa. 5-6). He believed as well that all human beings are persons, made in the image and likeness of God (ST I, q. 93, a. 6) and possessed a etc etc etc bla bla bla= = = = = Hand: I don't know what God wants, but I know for GODDAMN SURE that the latter example is closer to Natural Law. Morality, modesty, order, harmony. LIFE. The latter deserves to win, and probably will win sooner or later.
Labels: Make or break
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