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Signs of the time: Jonah, Jesus Christ and John XXIII
John XXIII’s address on November 14, 1960, kicked off the work of the preparatory commissions for the Second Vatican Council (Komonchak,...
May 1, 20239 min read
Historians, Preparation and Beginning
Writing the history of the Second Vatican Council Thanks to the history of the Second Vatican Council that Guiseppe Alberigo (1926-2007)...
Apr 13, 202328 min read
Dignity and the Second Vatican Council
Like everybody, I like enjoying my integrity, my physical, psychic, social, economic, cultural, and spiritual integrity. Reciprocally, I...
Apr 6, 202314 min read
Ethics in Democracy
Qualities of speech-acts and social realization of dignity I describe the speech-act as the social realization of interaction between a...
Mar 27, 202324 min read
Ethics and Discourse theory
Speech-acts. I describe the speech-act as the social realization of interaction between a speaker and at least one listener. The...
Mar 1, 202324 min read
Planet earth and democracy
In 2006 the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) began publishing research results on “the state of democracy worldwide in 165 independent...
Feb 28, 202324 min read
Ethics
The content of Wittgenstein’s lecture on ethics that he delivered in Cambridge on November 17, 1929, is preserved in the drafts he...
Feb 4, 202324 min read
The Drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The United Nations describe their foundation as follows: “As World War II was about to end in 1945, nations were in ruins, and the world...
Jan 18, 202318 min read
Defining Dignity
I start describing the concept of dignity by reading the first sentence of the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
Jan 11, 202310 min read
Wittgenstein and religious belief
Rush Rhees tells us that in 1931 Wittgenstein started developing his understanding of expressions about religions and the use of the word...
Dec 26, 202225 min read
When I speak of Go’d, I want to say the following
When I speak of Go’d, I speak from my faith perspective. This spiritual perspective is one perspective that my body operates. Speaking...
Dec 13, 202211 min read
International Human Rights Law
Rights are legitimate claims held by individuals and individuals organized into groups, communities, or states; lawyers call rights...
Dec 13, 202216 min read
Learning to live with the Anthropocene
Light is the fastest-moving wave or corpuscle in the universe; it travels 300,000 km per second (McClure, Bruce. 2017. “How far is a...
Dec 13, 20229 min read
What characterizes a Council in the Roman Catholic Church?
Karl Rahner (1904-1984) – as most Roman Catholic theologians - is not concerned with the active participation of the one billion...
Dec 13, 20228 min read
Spirituality needs emotions, feelings, and choices
It is not surprising that psychologists insist on the importance of emotions for our quality and meaning of life. Yet, in 2018 it is...
Dec 13, 202216 min read
The Vatican
In the first three centuries CE, the Christians lived in the cities of the Roman Empire. The habits, morals and laws of the Roman Empire...
Dec 13, 202217 min read
Paul Lorenzen (1915-1994) confesses faith in Jesus Christ
The Czech mathematician and philosopher Vladimir Richter (1925-2013) was a Jesuit teaching logic and medieval philosophy at the...
Dec 13, 20229 min read
Sentences, sense, and logical truth
In the Tractatus Wittgenstein does not take up the example from Notebooks for explaining how we form sentences. In Notebooks he compares...
Dec 13, 202212 min read
Sentences and facts, sense and dignity
Wittgenstein published the Tractatus logico-philosophicus in Ostwald’s Annalen der Naturphilosophie in 1921. In this blog I usually cite...
Nov 17, 20229 min read
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