Anthony Kenny on Medieval Philosophy: Section 4

[p3tr0114]

I dont really think it is possible to wage a modern war without being sure innocents will die.

[strangetranceoffaith]

If you can conceive of something in actuality that is greater than something in the mind then the thing conceived of in the mind could not have been the greatest posible thing to conceive of in the first place. Now show the thing you conceive of as actual is in fact actual.

[Piniczylin]

Following their logic - war is ok as long as there is a good reason for it - for example oil is a good reason because oil is the prosperity of our advance civilized democratic european civilazation which is a marvelous civilazation - concentration of all humanitarian values ect... But! It does not have lots of resources... so the conclusion- go and bomb iraq which is all not that democratic anyway... - this is not even positivizm this is wild cave darvinizm - bravo oxford philiophers

[ultrak0w]

i like how they pretend that there shitty english bertrand russel positivism is the only contemporary option.

[Q2W3e4r5tss]

Remember that of pope Leo and St. Thomas