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Frederick Smith

The Future of Religious Violence, by Tim Muldoon - 0 views

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shared by Frederick Smith on 16 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Frederick Smith on 16 Jan 11
     
    "Religion was supposed to die of asphyxiation in the wake of modernity, but the opposite has proven to be the case. So the options aren't religion or no religion; the options are good religion or bad religion. I'm voting for the former, meaning a critical understanding of power in religious traditions."
Frederick Smith

Tim Muldoon on the primacy of Natural Law over Social Contract - 0 views

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shared by Frederick Smith on 23 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Frederick Smith on 23 Jan 11
     
    Catholic theologian Tim Muldoon: when "social contract" theory fails as a source of social ethics, then - said Martin Luther King Jr. (in "Letter from a Birmingham prison") - the appeal must be to some kind of transcendant "natural law." (I would only add that new views of "natural law" evolve with history and social circumstances - the incompatibility of slavery wasn't clearly seen till the 19thC, of segregation till the 20th, of discrimination against homosexuals in all the rights & privileges of civil society until the 21st.)
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