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		<title>Karol Wojtyla and Martha Nussbaum on Human Essentials: Part II</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2012/01/18/karol-wojtyla-and-martha-nussbaum-on-human-essentials-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part II: Martha Nussbaum's "Human Functioning and Social Justice: In Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism" seeks to delineate certain essential human characteristics, with the end of normatively grounding a liberal capabilities polity.  In my view, Karol Wojtyla's "Person and Act" gives strong support in the epistemology of person to her capabilities project.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla and Martha Nussbaum on Human Essentials: Part I</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2012/01/17/karol-wojtyla-and-martha-nussbaum-on-human-essentials-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I: Martha Nussbaum's "Human Functioning and Social Justice: In Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism" seeks to delineate certain essential human characteristics, with the end of normatively grounding a liberal capabilities polity.  In my view, Karol Wojtyla's "Person and Act" gives strong support in the epistemology of person to her capabilities project.]]></description>
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		<title>Gratuitousness and Reciprocity Contrasted</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2012/01/15/gratuitousness-and-reciprocity-contrasted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enzo Bianchi: In any case, if the other does not accept or receive forgiveness, the one who forgives, in forgiving, affirms gratuitousness.  He affirms that he wants to re-initiate the relationship with the other—the one who wronged him—from the beginning.  He wants in some way to say that he does not want reciprocity.  This to me is what is truly and profoundly human in forgiving.]]></description>
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		<title>Prison Economics of Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illegal immigration is doubtless a highly complex issue, with myriad points of view to consider, as are drug use and other non-violent crimes; however, a positive one should not be corporate profit, recast in patriotic and political terms with which it becomes difficult to differ in principle without seeming to affirm the opposite.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla&#8217;s Person and Act and Post-foundationalist Truth</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/09/10/karol-wojtylas-person-and-act-and-post-foundationalist-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karol Wojtyla's <i>Person and Act</i> seems the best approach I have personally found to understand the world after a post-foundationalist collapse.  Any certainty that I have does not derive from my ability to reduce the world to the scope of my theories, whether scientific or theological, but from truths which I re-cognize outside myself, toward which I reach beyond myself.]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Companies, Avandia, and the First Law of Robotics</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/07/24/drug-companies-avandia-and-the-first-law-of-robotics/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/07/24/drug-companies-avandia-and-the-first-law-of-robotics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first law of robotics is simply this: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."  Might it be too much to require the management of drug companies to adhere to the first law of robotics?]]></description>
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		<title>In ogni rapporto&#8230; / In every relationship&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/07/05/in-ogni-rapporto-in-every-relationship/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2010/07/05/in-ogni-rapporto-in-every-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ogni rapporto umano, ogni dinamica interpersonale... / In every human relationship, in every encounter with another person...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I am second&#8221; campaign</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/07/05/i-am-second-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I disagree with the campaign's message, partly in what it does say, but more centrally in what it does not say.]]></description>
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		<title>Money, Greed, and God</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/06/01/money-greed-and-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The church is bombarded with two competing messages about money and capitalism. The first message is that wealth is bad and causes much of the world's suffering; the second is that wealth is good and God wants you to prosper and be rich."  There are two foci in the quoted text: wealth and self. This seems a misfocus; the 2nd greatest command is about the self to other relation, not self to wealth.]]></description>
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		<title>Entrance Exam</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2008/10/07/entrance-exam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week my wife received a letter from a girl she had visited in the county jail.  The girl asked her thoughts on a few questions for a Bible study in their tank, one of which was this:  "If you were in front of God right now, and he asked you, 'Why should I let you in my Kingdom of Heaven?', what would your answer be?"  My wife mentioned this to me last Saturday, and after a few moments' reflection I responded: "Because I want what you want."]]></description>
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