There is an advantage to asking silly questions: they never have simple answers. How we solve the problem of suffering is a prime example, for the question is almost impossible to interpret. But as I sat in the corner of a packed lecture hall, listening to the idle clatter of a philosophical combat that veeredContinue reading “Proceedings of the Pain Debate”
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Smatterings of the Philosopher’s Stone – Chapter 2, part 3: On Protestants and the Peace of the Church
The wonder of it is that, being a man of his time, the humble physician can call it ‘uncharitable to fall upon those popular scurrilities and opprobrious scoffs at the Bishop of Rome,’ or say that, not forgetting the ‘general charity he owes to humanity,’ he rather pities than hates ‘Turks, infidels’ and (most malignedContinue reading “Smatterings of the Philosopher’s Stone – Chapter 2, part 3: On Protestants and the Peace of the Church”
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