[This is a Portuguese translation of Part 2 of the Theist vs. Atheist series between John C. Wright and Stephen R. C. Hicks, originally published in English at EveryJoe.] Razão e fé são incompatíveis? Por Stephen Hicks Tradução e Revisão de Matheus Pacini Eu aprecio o ensaio inicial do Sr. Wright e estou de acordo […]
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por Stephen Hicks [This is a Spanish translation of “How to Tame Religious Terrorists”, originally published in English at EveryJoe and translated into Portuguese here.] Derrotar a un enemigo, como al politizado Islam, implica una batalla en varios frentes: policial, militar, diplomático, cultural y filosófico. Toda pelea es provocada por desacuerdos locales de corto plazo. Pero
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[This is a Portuguese translation of Part 1 of the Theist vs. Atheist debate series between Stephen R.C. Hicks and John C. Wright, originally published in English at EveryJoe.] Vale a pena discutir religião? Por Stephen Hicks Tradução e Revisão de Matheus Pacini Minha resposta é: certamente, vale a pena discutir sobre religião. Todos nós
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[In the excerpts below from Summa Theologica (written 1265-1274), St. Thomas Aquinas takes up two questions: Whether it is lawful to kill sinners? and Whether heretics ought to be tolerated? A PDF version of this text is here.] Whether it is lawful to kill sinners? [II II Q. 64 A.2] Objection 1. It would seem
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[This week in my Introduction to Philosophy course, we’re reading Galileo’s “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina” — published exactly 400 years ago — in which he argues that free inquiry in the sciences is compatible with religion rightly understood. Here is a re-posting of my Galileo and the Modern Compromise.] IN HIS OPEN LETTER
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Theist vs. Atheist — What Should You Believe? John C. Wright and I have completed our series of articles debating key issues in religion. The full seven-round series is available at EveryJoe.com’s dedicated page and here at my Theist vs. Atheist page. Translations into Portuguese are forthcoming. Here is the Table of Contents with links
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In my Philosophy of Religion course, this week we are reading excerpts from the Koran and Seyyid Qutb’s influential Milestones. The Koran has many bloodthirsty passages as well as many suggesting qualified live-and-let-live policies. So we take up the question of whether Islam is essentially a religion of violence or peace. Qutb offered an influential
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The opening of my final column in the Theist vs. Atheist debate series at EveryJoe: “To evaluate religion’s track record we need to specify our evaluative benchmarks and identify whether we are evaluating religion generically or a particular religion. “A religion is a set of beliefs and practices, and my primary benchmark is this: Does it
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