Oct
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Guns ‘n’ Logic
October 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve never really understood the whole Second Amendment obsession. It seems to me that one can cover the whole “well-maintained militia” thing–if anybody really takes that seriously anymore–by issuing every military-age person a non-automatic rifle and then banning literally everything else. Because, as my friend Paul Halsall of English Eclectic points out in a recent [...]
Oct
2
Magisterium and Private Judgment
October 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There is a fine metathread up at Pontifications: the Pontificator has collected together the comments–all of them, apparently–and other contributions to the blog by Mike Liccione, one of my favorite bloggers and Catholic philosophers, having to do with the relationship between magisterial teaching and private judgments. The resulting PDF file can be accessed here. I’ve [...]
