Admittedly a bit dated, but a 1998 paper by the Joint Methodist-Presbyterian Public Questions Committee suggested that for those “whose emotional or physical make-up means that it is unlikely they would ever be able to enter a mutually acceptable and honest physical relationship with another person’, prostitutes should be provided, and that “to deny such people any opportunity to express . . . → Read More: eros-anthropos?
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The ‘proper’ basis for the personal identity of any given human is a hard thing to derive… if you’re limited to the tools of, say, science. Science wonderfully (and tragically in the case of murder, hate, discrimination, etc.) describes what humans ‘do’ (human doings), but not what/who humans ‘are’ (human beings). I’d want to affirm that ‘doing’ (as well as . . . → Read More: sex & identity …of “all of [them] on the Facebook Team” to wish me a happy (30th) birthday (on the ’30th’ of January). Consciousness is at least sentience, but not less. We can imagine a spectrum of least sentient to most sentient. The nearest animals to humans, in this case, would (obviously!) have the closest kind of sentience to humans. But (however this ‘emerged’ or came to be) humans are ultra-sentient. We have more than sensation (sentience); we also have a perceiving, yearning . . . → Read More: sentience and consciousness Epistemology is (loosely defined) as the study of knowledge. As the ending of this very sentence will show, it is circular to assume ( that is, before investigation or a priori ) that you know what it means to know something (i.e. that you know what knowledge is!). . . . → Read More: knowing about knowing (Click the post title to see the 19.5 week scan!) Have a read. It’s not just those fundamentalist, conservative, annoying Christians who are concerned about our western over-sexed culture…  Comments are closed  ethics, www  advertising, belief, culture, dignity, discernment, ethics, humanity, identity, imagination, life, morals, sexuality I’ve posted before on this topic, and thought I’d share a bit more about it. Hopefully, these thoughts will be helpful in aiding fruitful discussion… I’ve observed a distinction between 3 things that I feel are necessary to distinguish between in order to most helpfully discuss the topic of sexuality. Actually, these three things can, I suggest, be distinguished helpfully . . . → Read More: sexual identity – again… 38 comments - (Comments are closed) christianity, ethics belief, conflict, culture, current event, debate, discernment, emotions, ethics, humanity, identity, imagination, life, morals, relationships, sexuality There are a few, perhaps, who would answer this question with a casual (or insistent) “None. Get over it”, but most, I suspect, would agree: porn (obviously only for societies that have it) is a problem. Some better questions would be ‘what kind of problem is it?’, ‘where does it come from?’ and ‘how do people deal with it?’ Jason . . . → Read More: what’s the problem with porn? 6 comments - (Comments are closed) christianity, ethics, philosophy advertising, culture, death, dignity, ethics, evil, general, humanity, identity, imagination, intimacy, life, morals, porn, relationships, sexuality, temptation, wisdom I mean… really… Don’t get me wrong… the internet is great… but the by-line for this online ‘friend’ site… ‘be who you wanna be’… scares me. Online Identity… yikes. I hope humanity doesn’t forget… how to have a simple meal together… sharing food… sharing time… sharing conversation… sharing LIFE with each other. That would be very sad… . . . → Read More: i heart the internet… 8 comments - (Comments are closed) ethics, general, technology, www change, community, culture, death, dignity, discernment, evil, family, fellowship, humanity, identity, imagination, intimacy, life, love, relationships |
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