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The one true science of virtue

By Alliance Alert

Dr. Peter Augustine Lawler writing at First Things, Postmodern Conservative: "So it?s obvious to us that the biotechnological promise to free us from the constraints of virtue for the happiness that accompanies pure freedom will never be kept. We?ll never achieve immortality?or some absolute transcendence of the limitations of embodiment. The best we might achieve is a kind of indefinite longevity, which would make death seem more accidental and so our beings more contingent and our moods more anxious than ever. And even if our moods become chemical silly putty in our hands, we still wouldn?t have what it takes to choose the moods that make us most happy with being who we really are."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).