[…] over comfort and convenience as well. (The glorious thing is they usually don’t let it come above human considerations.) Bound up with the whole problem is a certain amount of human inertia, of course. […]
[…] two unshakable conclusions. The first was that religion can and often does play a powerful role in human life. Whether for good or ill, religion is a force which cannot be ignored. Some scholars […]
[…] twentieth century, there have been a few points of discordance. Most typically, they have been issues involving human reproduction. Birth Control The national ferment of the sixties and early seventies over abortion is an […]
[…] literature may be a kind of obverse pornography—and also to suggest that expressions of sexuality and other human functions are not intrinsically offensive to God. In defining pornography I would like to cite that […]
[…] am about how such attacks and defenses are conducted, what they do to our community, and the human costs in pain, mistrust, and violations of agency. The relationship between Mormon intellectuals and feminists and […]
[…] over the titans, devoid of foresight and driven by power and vengeance, who has determined that the human race is unworthy and must be destroyed. It is Prometheus’ foresight which instills in him enough […]
[…] of others. Levi-Strauss hypothesized that when writing first emerged “it seems to have favoured the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.” He proposed that “the primary function of written communication is to […]
[…] into perdition if it is not counteracted either by real religion, or by the protective wall of human community.” The Initial Hope of Humanism In order to appreciate more fully the original dilemmas, it […]
[…] I cultivate—no LDS-related literature, forums, alliances, or associations. One reason for my disaffiliation is the existence of human tragedy. For the life of me, I cannot comprehend the kind of human tragedy that is […]
[…] What the nonlawyer refers to as “ethics” can be described as standards of right conduct: how one human being qua human being ought to act toward another. But the lawyer means something entirely different. […]