I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
— Natalie Portman (via emotional-algebra)
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Obama Went Off Script To Address Gay Grads Directly At Morehouse College: A slight change in the language, but a significant change in meaning. Instead of a veiled reference to same-sex couples, Obama made the language direct.
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At the risk of sounding shocking, white Christian people are going to have to find a way to have “white pride,” by which I mean they’re going to have to create an identity for themselves that isn’t based on dominating everyone else or measuring everyone else by their standard.
— Richard Lindsay, Jason Collins, Tim Tebow, and the End of the White Evangelical Male, pop theology: where religion meets pop culture, 8 May 2013.
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A liberal Christian’s view on contraception and solidarity
Today on The Molinist: a liberal Christian’s view on contraception and solidarity, in response to James Chastek
James Chastek of Just Thomism has recently posted a personal reflection, from a Roman Catholic perspective, on contraception: A Catholic’s view on contraception and solidarity. Chastek raised a couple of points that I think bear responding to. I encourage…
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Untitled (by Krissy Lauren)
Tumblr is not helping with this ‘wanting to go back to the Highlands’ situation.
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So I’m pretty irritated with my bank these days (I’ll share the saga once it’s concluded) but over the course of my repeated daily visits to their website I noticed this banner a couple of times. It’s in exactly the same tone as all of their other homepage lifestyle ads (because TD is the bank for the modern lifestyle, don’t’cha know?): a pretty couple doing a tumblr-tastic domestic activity in their uncommonly nice home. Representation is nice, even when it is itself an act of advertising (as it invariably is). Queer money is still money, eh?
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Striving
Finally, a new post on The Molinist, (still about the moral ontology of rights, though): Striving
Apologies for this most recent spate of silence. End-of-term time teamed up with an unprecedented flare up of a chronic condition to make blogging a distant dream for a couple of weeks. I return, tired but kicking, with some further thoughts on one of the…
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Pour Aristote, les Romains de l’époque classique et Saint-Thomas le jus est l’égal, la res justa, l’objectum justitiae, l’id quod justum est. Ces autorités ingorent un droit qui soit pouvoir, liberté, volonté ou faculté de l’individu. Dans les relations de la citeé, it y a des personnes et des choses: et la jurisprudence, dit Ulpien, est la science des choses divines et humaines, et spécialement du justim et de l’injustum. La justice consiste à accorder à chaque chose sa place dans un monde harmonieux, où règne un juste universel, donnè par la nature.
— Marcel Thomann, ‘Christian Wolff et le droit subjectif,’ Archives de philosophie du droit 9 (1964) p 154.
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