In my previous post, What is the Totality of a Human Life?: Individuals and Communities, I explored some issues related to meaningfulness, using terms which might allow a slightly more disciplined discourse and thought than what is currently used by knowledgeable and insightful thinkers as well as many others. I think it necessary to delve … [Read more…]
A life is made up of moments and events but it’s not merely the sum of the moments and events in the way that a universe isn’t just the sum of the matter and energy and other specific things it contains and a community isn’t just the sum of its members and their individual to … [Read more…]
In the essay, When Does Human Life Begin?, Brook Stanton makes a clear and forceful statement, with highly summarized arguments which are really—and he admits so—references to well-established facts and theories of modern biology: human life begins at conception. He doesn’t show awareness that there is some, if not total, truth in the claim that … [Read more…]