Category Archive: Christianity

12 Feb

Evaluating Value

Under what conditions did men invent for themselves these value judgments good and evil? And what inherent value do they have? Have they hindered or fostered human well-being up to…
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 12:09 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
05 Dec

The Will to Virtue and the Morality of Capture

    “Neither Manu, nor Plato nor Confucius nor the Jewish and Christian teachers have ever doubted their right to lie. They have not doubted that they had very different…
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 5:35 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
29 Nov

Nietzsche, Pity and Virtue: From the Superfluous to the Exceptional

The weak and the failures shall perish: first principle of our love of man. And they shall even be given every possible assistance (The Antichrist, 570). In the opening sections…
Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 9:51 am By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
21 Sep

‘The Teacher of the Destruction of the Law:’ Introduction to Alain Badiou’s St. Paul

Badiou, Alain. Saint Paul: The Foundations of Universalism. Trans. Ray Brassier. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003. Badiou starts off his book with an interesting definition of the fable: A ‘fable’ is…
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 10:40 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
16 Sep

‘A Doctrine for Specialists and Philosophers:’ Sartre’s Existential Universalism

In his Existentialism and Human Emotions published in 1947, Sartre notes that what existentialists have in common is the fact that “they believe that existence comes before essence—or, if you…
Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 8:40 pm By Taylor Adkins 7 Replies
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