Karol Wojtyla’s Person and Act and Post-foundationalist Truth
Karol Wojtyla’s Person and Act 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.
Drug Companies, Avandia, and the First Law of Robotics
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?
In ogni rapporto… / In every relationship…
In ogni rapporto umano, ogni dinamica interpersonale… / In every human relationship, in every encounter with another person…
Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac Redux
Much contemporary teaching holds that in having Ishmael by Hagar Abraham took it on himself to make God’s promises happen. The Genesis text does not support that.
Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: Introduction, part four: the person as transcendent yet integrated agent
In the final section of the introduction Wojtyla outlines the stages of phenomenological analysis of the person as a transcendent yet integrated agent.
Altruistic Products: a contradiction? Muhammed Yunus doesn’t think so.
Muhammed Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who started the now global micro-lending movement, has a new business idea he is pitching to a few global companies: altruistic products.
Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: part three: stages of comprehension
In the third section of the introduction to Person and Act Wojtyla considers induction and reduction as practical methodologies in developing a theory of the person.
Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: part two, the understanding of “person”
In the second half of the second section of the introduction to Person and Act, Wojtyla considers that the intellectual vision of the person formed in the observation of acts derives not only from the acts themselves, but also from the moral value of those acts
Un contrasto tra Wojtyla e Lévinas sul rapporto con l’altro
Un constrasto tra Wojtyla e Lévinas sul rapporto etico simmetrico / asimmetrico con l’altro che potrebbe portare ad esiti diversi.
Tadeus Styczen: Being Oneself and Transcending Oneself
Am I myself when, by an act of free choice, I deny the truth that I have established as such, having ascertained it as an eyewitness?