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Good and Evil: Simpler Than We Pretend

Friday, November 30th, 2007

More than 1500 years ago, St. Augustine of Hippo told us that evil was not a positive force but rather a privation in being. He reasoned that all being comes from God and has to be good. He had, so to speak, a devil of a time justifying the existence of Satan, a being who [...]

Categories: Christian in the universe of Einstein, Evil, Mind, Moral freedom, Moral issues, Peace of Christ, Personal evil, St. Thomas Aquinas, The nature of sin, philosophy, politics
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Shaping Our Minds to Reality

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

The wavefunction is the vehicle of our understanding of the quantum world. Judged by the robust standards of classical physics it may seem a rather wraith-like entity. But it is certainly the object of quantum mechanical discourse and, for all the peculiarity of its collapse, its subtle essence may be the form that reality has [...]

Categories: Brain sciences, Christian in the universe of Einstein, Mind, Modern language, Moral issues, Quantum mechanics, philosophy, science
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