In a conversation with grad students the other day, I suggested that all other things being equal, adoption policy should give preference to couples.  Though a few of them agreed, others objected that such a policy would amount to “punishing singles.”

I found that an interesting expression.

New lecture video:  True Toleration

The logician’s wife is having a baby.  As soon as the baby is born, it is placed in the father’s arms.  The mother asks, “Is it a boy or a girl?”  The father replies, “Yes.”

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Question:

To grasp what natural law is all about, we have to understand nature as fashioned according to certain purposes.  We have to view every kind of thing there is as an arrow directed naturally to its goal.  The way Thomas Aquinas put this was to say that the “nature” of any particular thing is “a purpose, implanted by the Divine Art, that it be moved to a determinate end.”

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Stay calm; this is merely a reflection on one of the differences between Catholic and Protestant culture, not an attempt to cast aspersions.

Mondays are usually for letters from students.  Some are philosophical or theological; others, like this one, more practical.