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Immanuel Kant Never Visited Yerkes!

Posted on September 14, 2009
September 14, 2009 Virtual empathy clue to behavior By Emily Rios In the only study of its kind, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center have documented the first example of a nonhuman primate empathizing with a computer animation....

Kain on Kant on Human Moral Status

Posted on September 14, 2009
In light of our recent conversation about Christianity's debt to Kant, we might find helpful Purdue philosophy prof Patrick Kain's recent paper, Kant's Defense of Human Moral Status. Here's a summary: The determination of individual moral status is a central...

Some reflections on sovereignty by one who studies the Church?s social doctrine and public international law

Posted on September 14, 2009
I would like to thank Patrick and Greg for their discussions about sovereignty. As Patrick mentioned, there was not the opportunity to hear from the realms of public international law or theology at the symposium that was described, so perhaps...

More on "Intractable Disputes About the Natural Law"

Posted on September 14, 2009
In response to my post below, I am informed that: The CUA Nat'l Law Symposium will be published in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Law, Philosophy, and Culture: http://law.cua.edu/clpc/journal/Vol3.pdf

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More on the Sovereignty Symposium at Villanova

Posted on September 14, 2009
Over the weekend, Patrick Brennan provided a synopsis of the very interesting and diverse presentations offered at the ?Sovereignty? symposium on Friday hosted at Villanova Law School. Before adding my ?two or three cents worth,? as Patrick invited me to...

"Elementary Experience" and Natural Law

Posted on September 13, 2009
At the urging of my pals Mary Ann Glendon and Joseph Weiler, I accepted an invitation to speak (in a tag-team partnership with Mary Ann) at the 30th annual "Meeting for Friendship of Peoples" hosted by Communion & Liberation in...

Kristof on the Debate Over Health Care

Posted on September 13, 2009
"After Al-Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans, eight years ago on Friday, we went to war and spent hundreds of billions of dollars ensuring that this would not happen again. Yet every two months, that many people die becaue of our...

Lifted from dotCommonweal ...

Posted on September 13, 2009
... because of special relevance to us here at MOJ: Intractable Disputes About the Natural Law?Alasdair MacIntyre and His Critics September 13, 2009, 6:03 pm Posted by Cathleen Kaveny Many of the subjects discussed on this blog touch upon moral...

Welcome to Robert George

Posted on September 13, 2009
I suppose I should not be surprised that the newest member of the MOJ community, Prof. Robert George (Politics / Princeton), put up his inaugural post before I could put up the "welcome" post. In any event, welcome aboard, Robby!

Opting Out

Posted on September 12, 2009
This week my family took at small step away from government subsidized big agri-business toward what I hope will be healthier food produced in a more sustainable way by people we will get to know over the years. We joined...

A Health Care Reform Alternative

Posted on September 12, 2009
This op-ed in the Wall Street Journal from last month proposes a market-based solution for health care reform, which gets us closer to universal coverage without massive government regulation. If it works, isn't this solution consistent with Catholic Social Teaching?...

Health Care Reform: Big Food v. Big Insurance

Posted on September 12, 2009
Thank you Susan for your insights into health care reform. Last month, after reading Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma, I suggested that one way to control health care costs in the US would be to reform agricultural policy. A couple of...

"You're not the boss of me"

Posted on September 12, 2009
My subject line was the unofficial title for the symposium held yesterday at Villanova Law: "Sovereignty's Seductions: Reconciling Conflicting Claims to Govern." The symposium grew out of a conversation my wonderful colleague Ann Juliano and I carried on, over several...

A Market-Based Alternative for Health Care Reform

Posted on September 12, 2009
Michael Scaperlanda directs us to a recent WSJ op-ed and asks what problems there might be to the author's suggestion of a market-based approach and whether such an approach is inherently at odds with Catholic Social Teaching. I think the...

Remembering 9/11

Posted on September 11, 2009
Thanks to Rick for posting Pope Benedict's prayer during his visit to Ground Zero. I'm drawn particularly to the request for wisdom and courage to work for a world of peace. In my Creo en Dios! post this morning (which...

For September 11 . . .

Posted on September 11, 2009
Here is the prayer offered by Pope Benedict during his visit to Ground Zero: O God of love, compassion, and healing, look on us, people of many different faiths and traditions, who gather today at this site, the scene of...

Have white Catholics in the U.S. "put racial prejudice behnd them"?

Posted on September 10, 2009
"How Overt Racial Prejudice Hurt Obama in the 2008 Election" SPENCER PISTON, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Political Science Email: spiston@umich.edu Some commentators claim that white Americans put prejudice behind them when evaluating presidential candidates in...

"Barack Obama's conversion to Catholicism"

Posted on September 10, 2009
Does anyone know anything about this, here? [Thanks to MOJ friend Pasquale Annicchino for the pointer.]

McGurn on the New Hampshire case

Posted on September 10, 2009
I blogged a few days ago about (what I think is) a disturbing family-law opinion, written by a judge in New Hampshire. Bill McGurn has an interesting op-ed, here, about the case, and also about a case in Florida, in...

Saving Grace

Posted on September 09, 2009
The current issue of America has a review of one of my favority TV shows, Saving Grace, starring Holly Hunter.

What do you think ...

Posted on September 09, 2009
... of New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman's view of one-party autocracy? One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages....

God's Politics

Posted on September 09, 2009
Is God a liberal? A conservative? A traditional Catholic will say neither because Vatican teachings are on both sides of the liberal/conservative divide. I am not a traditional or Vatican Catholic, but disagreeing with that position is not the point....

New Book: The Religious Left and Church-State Relations

Posted on September 09, 2009
I have a new book that has recently been released. For a description, endorsements, table of contents, and the introduction, go to http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9088.html.

Villanova conference on Catholic Legal Education

Posted on September 09, 2009
This should be a fun and thought-provoking event: There are 29 law schools in Catholic universities in the United States, and the past 10 years have witnessed a renaissance in Catholic legal education. New law schools have opened with an...

China's "enlightened" leaders?

Posted on September 09, 2009
This Tom Friedman piece is just creepy. I suppose China's "enlightened" leaders make the trains run on time, too? (Yes, yes, Friedman is correct to note that democracy complicates the efforts of those who desire dramatic policy shifts. But still...

Robert George on Kant and Human Dignity

Posted on September 09, 2009
Robby George writes: Rob Vischer asks: What does the Christian belief in human dignity owe to Kant? One way of approaching the question is to consider Kant?s second formulation of the categorical imperative, namely: ?treat humanity, whether in the person...

Can a sane person oppose SSM?

Posted on September 09, 2009
Apparently this is an open question at The Washington Post. Get Religion offers its usual helpful analysis.

More on our disappointing health-care "debate"

Posted on September 09, 2009
Like Susan (though perhaps for some different reasons), I am "depressed about the prospects of passing meaningful health care reform." This depression was greatly enhanced (exacerbated?) by reading the cover story in the September issue of The Atlantic...

"Contraception cheapest way to combat climate change"

Posted on September 09, 2009
This article may be of interest: Every �4 spent on family planning over the next four decades would reduce global CO2 emissions by more than a ton, whereas a minimum of �19 would have to be spent on low-carbon technologies...

God's Politics: A response to Steve S.

Posted on September 09, 2009
Steve's post on "God's politics" is, I think, very insightful. I agree that it is a mistake to imagine that "God is neither a liberal or a conservative" if by that one means "God is indifferent to the results and...

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