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Tag Archives: Abortion
More on Ayn Rand on Abortion
In my immediately previous post, the “Ayn Rand, Trump and the Conservatives, and Abortion”* of January 2, 2017, I quoted a passage from Ayn Rand’s “Of Living Death,”** a reply to the papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae.*** The first of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Actual Beings, Ayn Rand, Camestres, categorical propositions, Categorical Syllogisms, Embryos, Rights, Soundness, Validity
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Ayn Rand, Trump and the Conservatives, and Abortion
In a December 13, 2016, Washington Post article, speaking of Donald Trump’s decision to nominate ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, writer James Hohman told us: Tillerson and Trump had no previous relationship, but the Texas … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Atheism, Ayn Rand, Conservativism, Donald Trump, James Hohman, John Oliver, Paul Ryan, Rex Tillerson
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A Note on the “Natural” of “Natural Law Theory”
In his May 7, 2014, Crisis Magazine article, “Is Pluralism a Threat to Catholic Survival?” James Kalb tells his readers: Natural law claims to be a philosophical position that can be developed and defended without regard to religion, so it does … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Catholicism, Crisis Magazine, Death Penalty, James Kalb, Natural Law, Philosophy, Religion, Supernatural
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