The scripture quotations about speech are about the speaker choosing to speak. No doubt, we still have problems deciding when to speak and when to be still. I think, though, our contemporary concern is more about how our speech is going to affect the hearer. Isn't that what "foot in mouth" is...
I am a new member. You are a veteran member. Maybe you are saying that the subject of communication has been exhausted in previous posts? In Christ asked for reaction to some scripture quotations about speech. Your monk's statement from The Buddha is enlightening, but it is not the whole...
Tell me, were you posting those quotations about speaking to illustrate the importance of speech? I'm a believer in human communication as the way the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Christ, communicates in the world. The burden of the quotations seemed to me to be about using speech...
I'm thinking prudence is required in speaking as in every other action, but if one is engaged in relating to the person addressed and in reasoning about the subject under discussion, the prudence of the speech takes care of itself. What do you think? I have also been ruing the fact that we...
I do understand that the Church magisterium does not establish its moral positions by "politics" in the sense of asking the faithful what they think. The doctrine of reception of moral teachings and disciplinary laws is relevant, however. When the teachings and rules have been promulgated, the...
Well, I am saying that there is no political process when the Church's magisterium declares a doctrine or moral teaching. In the "reception" of the doctrine by the faithful there is conversation in the political domain. There is also a political process when citizens debate the usefulness or...
Good question. In times past the word "ideology" was a pejorative, meaning a system of ideas that was closed in the sense of based on an absolute truth claim. In current usage it seems that the word refers, as you say, to any system of ideas, even those based on provisional truth claims...
Tell me, isn't law made through a political process? Catholic doctrine is for the guidance of Catholic consciences. Catholics are taught that abortion is a deeply moral choice, i.e., the Church has concluded it is per se immoral. However, making a law that other citizens of a pluralistic...
Of course, but don't you think the Humanists of the 16th Century traced their thinking back to Aristotle? I think of current humanism as a development of 16th Century humanism. Are you referring to a specific school or time?
Yes, I do believe with you that all creatures are somehow connected. When I said humans have a connection, I did not mean that other creatures do not. All have a connection but humans have their own kind of connection. I believe with Aristotle that human knowing and loving includes persons...
Separate? Contingent beings are distinct from the necessary being but "separate"? Aren't human creatures connected to the creator through the human capacities to know and love? Those capacities transcend space and time. I believe the human condition includes a connection to the necessary...
Isn't the experience of humans over millennia evidence for justified true belief or knowledge? The object of the knowledge is a necessary being to account for all contingent being around us. People have called it God and attributed all sorts of characteristics to it, which is what humans do.
Karolina, your self-description sounds very familiar to me. A lot of us "weirdos" around my neck of the woods. We tend to be Catholics whose experiences have made it impossible for us to fit unquestioningly into parish life. There is an article in the current America Magazine by a young Jesuit...