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18Medieval modal logic & science: Augustine on necessary truth & Thomas on its impossibility without a first causeUniversity Press of America. 1999.Medieval Modal Logic & Science uses modal reasoning in a new way to fortify the relationships between science, ethics, and politics. Robert C. Trundle accomplishes this by analyzing the role of modal logic in the work of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, then applying these themes to contemporary issues. He incorporates Augustine's ideas involving thought and consciousness, and Aquinas's reasoning to a First Cause. The author also deals with Augustine's ties to Aristotelian modalities of tho…Read more
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39Is there any ethics in business ethicsJournal of Business Ethics 8 (4). 1989.It is argued, against Richard T. De George, that while clarification of concepts, implications, and presuppositions in business ethics largely relies on a neutral territory of reason, determination of what moral intuitions are correct depends on non-neutral ethical theories. The latter posit ethics in business to varying degrees. Thus while the Kantian and utilitarian ethical theories are, for De George, proper (philosophical) approaches to business ethics, they are as reliant on affirming and e…Read more
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The reasonableness of moral reasonDiálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 26 (57): 137-148. 1991.
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129America's Religion versus Religion in America: A Philosophic ProfileJournal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 11 (33): 3-20. 2012.Religion can be politicized to become a murderous ideology and ideology can be interpreted messianically to become a virtual religion. With the caveat that a religio-ideological capitalism pertains only to a minority of conservative Americans and that most Americans are not ideological, ideological capitalism has had an inordinate influence on America’s social-political praxis. This praxis has suffered from the ideology where “ideology” denotes inter alia: 1) a system of belief whose believers a…Read more
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1Modalidades aristotélicas de san Agustín: En memoria de Fr. José Oroz RetaAugustinus 42 (164-65): 13-40. 1997.
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Camus on a Disquietude That Cannot Be Distilled!Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (Philippine e-journal) 31 (2). 2002.Camus's apparent flirtation with Catholicism is rooted in his notion of absurdity. Paradoxically, an absurdity of existence both unites us to the world and alienates us from it. Whereas the alienation was avoided by a traditional philosophy that improperly imposed reason on reality, ultimate reality was construed by religion as a God who passes understanding. And though limitations on understanding are embodied by such things as a paradox of Christ who is both man and not man, Camus's profound i…Read more
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Paradoxes of Human NatureEtica E Politica 9 (1): 181-186. 2007.Our psychobiological nature is characterized paradoxically by our limitedly having and not having free will — our having this will and being subject to causes understood scientifically. Both characteristics are necessary for an intelligible ethics, politics, and political science. In particular, political science as a science must admit of our behavior being partially caused and of political rights and responsibilities in virtue of our limited free will. Admitting of either only this will or onl…Read more
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St. Thomas on Wittgenstein and Heidegger: The World's possible nonexistenceGiornale di Metafisica 17 (3): 327-360. 1995.
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