The rationalistic opposition between freedom and morality (1/2) - 25 words to speak an ethical language
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25 words for an ethical language
reading St. John Paul II's writings.
Main menu:
- Irenaeus and gnosticism
- Tertullian and soul's responsibility
- Novatian and the moral life
- Celsus, Origen and humans in the cosmos
- St.Ambrose, St.Augustine and manicheanism
- St.Augustine and pelagianism
- St. John Chrysostom and the Law
- ... about Grace
- Freedom and morality
- Prospects without God?
- We are His creatures
- Truth is not opposed to reason
The rationalistic opposition between freedom and morality (1/2)
Disputes
Francis Bacon recognized that nature conforms to its laws; so, he studied them with method and experiments.
The dominion over creation, lost through original sin, would be reestablished by science and praxis, so leading many philosophical currents to also consider the message of Jesus and the salvation of the soul as a flight from responsibility and a selfish search for salvation, untying logic from the value of virtues and laying foundations on reason and freedom only.