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William F. Vallicella

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Kenny, Geach, and the Perils of Reading Frege into Aquinas

(Written 23 December 2013)

I have been studying Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Being (Oxford 2002). I cannot report that I find it particularly illuminating. I am troubled by the reading back of Fregean doctrines into Aquinas, in particular in...

8 days ago

Two Assurances of Religion

Karl Britton, in Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, writes:

Religion tries to provide two great assurances: that there is an absolute good and bad in the world at large, and that the absolute good has power. (Cambridge UP, 1969, p. 192...

11 days ago

Dark Nietzschean Thoughts

The serious thinker is self-critical: his examination of life, without which his life is not worth living, is a self-examination, even unto a painful thinking against himself. He has the courage to entertain, which is not to say endorse, da...

18 days ago

John Locke on the Right to Self-Defense

There are natural rights, rights not conferred by governments. Among these is the natural right to life. This right of ours entails in others a moral obligation not to harm us. The underlying principle here is the correlativity of rights an...

21 days ago

Weil's Wager

Simone Weil

An intriguing argument

In her New York Notebook from 1942, Simone Weil presents an argument which she claims “…is greatly preferable to Pascal’s wager.”[i] One of her commentators agrees, finding her argument “obviously both m...

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    Philosopher retired from teaching but not from philosophy. Numerous publications. See PhilPapers for publication list.

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