Month: July 2017

Whence Come American Values?

In a discussion of a recent speech by President Trump, Robert Merry gives a short summary of one aspect of our current political mess—see Trump’s Warsaw Speech Threw Down the Gauntlet on Western Civilization: Is America just `an idea’?. In Merry’s discussion, we can read: In his Warsaw speech on Thursday, Donald Trump threw down … [Read more…]

What is the Totality of a Human Life?: Unity, Coherence, and Completeness

In my last post, What is the Totality of a Human Life?: Individual and Communal Intent, I proposed that `intent’ in the sense used by Thomas Aquinas and by biologists and lawyers is a way to help us understand human being in its totality, encompassing individual and communal manifestations of human being—and probably divine human … [Read more…]