At the online Prager University, lecturer Frank Pastore asks: “Do you have the ability to shape your own destiny? Is there a difference between your mind and your brain? Or is free will just a convenient delusion? Are you really just a product of physical forces beyond your control?”
Posts tagged with: Metaphysics
Greg Forster’s latest response to Sam Gregg, Acton’s director of research, on the utility of John Locke’s thought today is up over at Public Discourse. There’s a lot to learn from reading these exchanges, but right now I want to focus just briefly on one of the criticisms that Sam levels against Locke. Comparing Locke’s definition of Law to that of Aquinas, Sam finds Locke to be quite wanting. For Locke, “Law’s formal definition is the declaration of a superior will.”
It has long been customary to distinguish characteristically Protestant and Roman Catholic approaches to ethics by understanding Protestants to embrace a dynamic divine-command approach and Roman Catholics to pursue stable natural-law methods.
Read more on Natural Law in Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics…
In the Last Week
- Everyday Christianity: A Faith Free From The Accidental Pharisaism of Missional, Radical, Crazy and Other Superlatives (1,613 views)
by Anthony Bradley - Why Jesus is (Probably) Not a Keynesian (821 views)
by Joseph Sunde - 'No Religion, Please. We're European.' (507 views)
by Elise Hilton - Narcissism and the Minimum Wage Are Destroying Opportunities (479 views)
by Anthony Bradley - Pathological Altruism: When 'Good Intentions' Aren't So Good (437 views)
by Joseph Sunde
- Acton Commentary (260)
- Acton Media (77)
- Acton University (49)
- Bible and Theology (580)
- Christian Social Thought (267)
- Economic Freedom (77)
- Economics (115)
- General (590)
- Individual Liberty (174)
- Interviews (34)
- News and Events (2344)
- On Call in Culture (55)
- Poverty (122)
- PowerBlog Ramblings (53)
- PowerLinks (133)
- Programs (64)
- Public Policy (2075)
- Publications (214)
- Religious Liberty (39)
- Shareholder Activism (3)
- Shareholder Proxy Resolutions (3)
- Technology (15)
- Vatican (227)
- Virtue (53)
- Vocation (6)