In this preview of a Scientific American article, Urban Living Raises the Risk of Emotional Disorders , the question is raised: [U]rban migration represents one of the most dramatic environmental shifts human beings have ever undertaken. So one might be tempted to ask: How are we adapting to our new digs? Part of the answer … [Read more…]
I have uploaded A Modern Understanding of Human Being, a book about human being from a viewpoint of a Christian accepting and making some sense of modern empirical knowledge. In this book, I lay a foundation by advocating respect for empirical reality, the reality into which we are born and in which we develop. Moreover, … [Read more…]
There is a short article, Myth of Family Meals in Parent-Child Bonding Gets Debunked , which speaks in a common-sense way though the title is rather misleading. What the underlying study and the article point out is that family meals are a result of healthy and strong relationships between parents and children rather than being … [Read more…]
I’m going to take a quotation from Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals somewhat out of context: The bad conscience is an illness, there is no doubt about that, but an illness as pregnancy is an illness. [second essay, section 19 from the translation by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale, Vintage Books, 1989] What is … [Read more…]
I’ve argued repeatedly that we need to accept that we live in a world of evolutionary and developmental processes. This isn’t just a matter of intellectual correction. Much of the suffering in recent centuries was caused by our prideful attempts to control dynamic entities, even our own children, as they go through maturing processes of … [Read more…]
What happens when someone loses a body part or use of and feeling in that body part? How completely can a human being adapt to a prosthetic device? In a recent article, Human Brain Treats Prosthetic Devices as Part of the Body, we can read: People with spinal cord injuries show strong association of wheelchairs … [Read more…]
Some readers might access this blog in ways that don’t display the main page and might not be aware that I have a variety of books, nonfiction and fiction, available for free download. I’m planning to put this message up every month or two. The book for this month is Corporate Sex. Main Download Pages … [Read more…]
The Library of Law and Liberty website has another interesting article, this time dealing with some of the thoughts of the American Jesuit, John Courtney Murray. In this article, ‘The True Sage of Woodstock’, Richard Reinsch writes: How can reasonable men and women reclaim equality over and above egalitarianism? The first principled step is to … [Read more…]
Kenneth B. McIntyre’s review of the book, Oakeshott on Rome and America by Gene Callahan, was published at the website of the magazine The American Conservative. I’ve not read that book but my comments deal with basic lines of thought found in Oakeshott’s major writings. In McIntyre’s review, Oakeshott vs. America, we can read: So … [Read more…]
With a new pope to be elected soon, the Internet as well as print publications are filling once more with suggestions about radical or moderate reforms. “Let priests marry.” “Ordain women priests.” “Be more liberal allowing reception of the Sacraments.” “Allow divorce and remarriage.” “Allow artificial birth-control.” “Re-consider abortion, use of embryonic stem-cells, etc.” Similar … [Read more…]