Honor, Dignity and Victimhood
This post that consists of three parts: First, I will give a brief review of Jonathan Haidt and his publications – this section is optional and can be skipped if you like. Second, I will summarize...
View ArticleDiscipline and Punish; Mercy and Justice
The modern mind struggles to make sense of the atonement. At least mine does. The Book of Mormon insists that because of the atonement, mercy can potentially be extended to us sinners without...
View ArticleMorality, Religion and Politics: Pt. 1
About a year and a half ago I wrote a small series of posts in which I discussed Habermas’ The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere as a basic outline for different ways in which we can...
View ArticleMorality, Religion and Politics: Pt. 2
The strange thing about the enlightenment was that the better policies and institutions worked, the more people took them for granted and criticized them for their imperfections. (This tendency is...
View ArticleMorality, Religion and Politics: Pt. 3
In the first part of this series, I discussed Koselleck’s claim that absolute monarchism had solved the civil/religious wars by placing “reasons of state” above all moral and religious reproach, both...
View ArticleHegel vs. Kierkegaard
While Hegel never actually framed his own ideas in terms of “thesis, antithesis, synthesis“, it is still a decent way of understanding the issue I would like to present. In opposition to the...
View ArticleAlso Sprachen Die Propheten: A Faithful Nietzsche
“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time… But I say unto you..” “Nevertheless, it is not written that there shall be no end to this torment, but it is written endless torment… For, behold, I...
View ArticleThe Rational and the Charismatic: Weber II
Last post I discussed Weber’s attempts to develop a taxonomy of communities and cultures in terms of the distinctions which each community draws between legitimate/righteous dominion and...
View ArticleA Quick Note on Autonomy…
Autonomy is condemned within the scriptures: 34 And again, verily I say unto you, that which is governed by law is also preserved by law and perfected and sanctified by the same. 35 That which breaketh...
View ArticleA Genealogy of Self-Interest: Machiavelli and Hobbes
This is the third post in my series where I appropriate Jerry Muller’s lecture series “Thinking About Capitalism” to bring socioeconomics and intellectual history to Jonathan Haidt’s...
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