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Human Flourishing

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Tom Shakely
Date
July 9, 2021
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Human Dignity, Human Flourishing

‘Suffering and Sacrifice Are Part of a Flourishing Human Life’

Tom Shakely
July 9, 2021

Dr. Jennifer Frey delivered an excellent talk on “Suffering and the Problem of Evil” to the Thomistic Institute’s Yale University chapter this April. Listen to the whole talk, which I think is really a call to be practically wise amidst the tumult of our chaotic lives. I’ve transcribed the below from Dr. Frey’s talk and any errors are mine. First, on the classical view of justice: Now, it’s central to the virtue of justice in particular that there are certain things we must never do because that sort of action is to wrong someone. So, if we were to commit this sort of action—the wronging someone sort of action—then we would be not exercising justice but injustice. Murder, torture, rape, Read More ›

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World Health Organization sign and symbol.
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Wesley J. Smith
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April 13, 2021
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WHO Promotes ‘World One Health’ Globalization Treaty

Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2021
The World Health Organization has failed miserably in the COVID crisis — covering for China’s blatant misfeasance and badly muddling public-health communication. So, of course, it wants more power. The WHO wants us to prepare for future pandemics with a “One Health” international treaty that would foster globalized government. From the WHO press release pushing for “an all of government, all of society approach” to pandemic prevention. Read More ›
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Electric power lines against a dawn sky
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Wesley J. Smith
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March 27, 2021
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Do Greens Want the World to Be Like the ‘Blackout State?’

Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2021
Electricity is essential to modernity. Prosperity depends on it. So does longevity and health. If you doubt that, ask those in impoverished nations who still don’t have access to reliable electrical power! Read More ›
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Tom Shakely
Date
July 22, 2020
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Human Flourishing

Carter Snead on the Fundamental Disagreement of Our Time: What a Person Is

Tom Shakely
July 22, 2020

“The fundamental disagreement … is about what a person is — what human flourishing is, what is the nature of human identity, what is human nature, is there such a thing as human nature. And I think that it divides along, broadly, two polarities that you see play out in our public conversations and our private conversations…” One view, as Professor Carter Snead of Notre Dame lays out in this rich five minutes, is that what defines a human being is that you have “will and desire”. The other and older view is what Alasdair MacIntyre calls “recipricol indebtedness”: Professor Snead points to the question of telos; to whether human life has any concrete end or purpose outside of our Read More ›

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Tom Shakely
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February 19, 2020
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Human Dignity, Human Exceptionalism, Human Flourishing, Human Rights

Human Rights Require Knowledge of the Human Heart

Tom Shakely
February 19, 2020

I’m excited to join the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Let me share my approach to the issues of human dignity, liberty, and equality and the moral duties that the Center exists to consider and advance. I believe that when it comes to issues of human life we’re generally engaging conflicts that are neither unresolvable nor destined for stalemate. We’re debating issues that matter. We can lose sight of this due to the tendency to throw our hands into the air over the seemingly complex nature of many human life issues, content to “agree to disagree” because “it’s complicated.” For those determined to advance human dignity, liberty, and equality, settling for this false peace is, in fact, a surrender Read More ›

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