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  • Thus the Son is logically but not ontically prior to the Spirit.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Mike L 2007

  • In other words, the meaning of death is meaninglessness, the most universal and emptiest of concepts, which Heidegger had ontically determined beforehand.

    Archive 2007-05-01 enowning 2007

  • Sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests is more newsworthy, and less excusable in the aggregate, than abuse committed by relatives, clergy of other religious bodies, or teachers in public schools, because Catholic priests have been ontically configured by ordination to be "other Christs" in a way in which the Catholic laity, Protestant clergy, and of course non-Christians are not.

    The sex-abuse scandal in the Church: five years on Mike L 2007

  • “It does not seek to establish ontically that factically I am not present-at-hand alone” means that the point is not just that I happen to not be alone on a desert island, but rather that “Dasein is essentially being-with,” that we in some way “expect” there to be Others.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • In other words, the meaning of death is meaninglessness, the most universal and emptiest of concepts, which Heidegger had ontically determined beforehand.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • Sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests is more newsworthy, and less excusable in the aggregate, than abuse committed by relatives, clergy of other religious bodies, or teachers in public schools, because Catholic priests have been ontically configured by ordination to be "other Christs" in a way in which the Catholic laity, Protestant clergy, and of course non-Christians are not.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007

  • Thus the Son is logically but not ontically prior to the Spirit.

    The filioque IV: the issue narrowed further Mike L 2007

  • “It does not seek to establish ontically that factically I am not present-at-hand alone” means that the point is not just that I happen to not be alone on a desert island, but rather that “Dasein is essentially being-with,” that we in some way “expect” there to be Others.

    Archive 2007-05-01 enowning 2007

  • Evil, understood as what is objectively undesirable either morally or otherwise, has no existence except as a corruption or falling away from good, which is ontically if not conceptually primary.

    Is happiness good for you? Mike L 2005

  • Evil, understood as what is objectively undesirable either morally or otherwise, has no existence except as a corruption or falling away from good, which is ontically if not conceptually primary.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Mike L 2005

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