Just Thomism

Criteria for euthanasia identify states where the decision to kill oneself is reasonable.

Euthanasia steel mans the case for suicide.

Motion traces back to intrinsic causes, so these are the first effect of pure act.

Some Orthodox theologians claim Aristotle believed that pure act would cause the world necessarily.

In discussing free choice and divine causality, Thomas repeatedly appeals to an argument which, if vulgarized and put rhetorically, looks like this: Why is God causing a human act in such a way as to preserve all its human characteristics any different th…

Thomas objects: [T]he angel does not understand by species derived from things, but by innate universal species.

I grew up in a world where the act of dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not even a moral question, much less a moral problem.

Daniel c. 2 tells the story of Nebuchadnezzar calling his wise men and demanding they interpret his dream correctly, on pain of death.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees… you say, “If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have joined them in shedding the prophets’ blood.”

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