Alexander Pruss's Blog

If you pressure someone to act against their deeply-set moral beliefs, then your pressure is an action which, if successful, results in: t...

There is a popular picture of Socrates as someone inviting us to think for ourselves. I was just re-reading the Euthyphro , and realizing th...

Should a state promote supernatural goods like salvation? Here is a plausible argument, assuming the existence of supernatural goods: Supe...

Given what we have learned from science and philosophy, fundamental aspects of the world are mysterious and verge on contradiction: photons ...

Some ethical truths are intuitively obvious but it is hard to understand the reasons for them. For instance, sexual behavior should be, at l...

There is a discussion among political theorists on whether religious liberty should be taken as special, or just another aspect of some stan...

It is common in our culture to see religion as a matter of faith . Indeed, religions are sometimes even called “faiths”. Here is a reason ...

There have been many highly intelligent saints who were Christians. If there have been may highly intelligent saints who were Christians, ...

A lot of people identify as spiritual but not religious. It would be interesting to have statistics on how common this is among professional...

It sure seems that: A good human life is an integrated human life. But suppose we have a completely non-religious view. Wouldn't i...

I typically do not appreciate music at all. While there are rare exceptions, music typically leaves me aesthetically cold or anno...

This post is an oblique response to one of the lines of thought in a petition against Notre Dame University's lawsuit against the HHS co...

Some Spaniards hate some Romanians and are hated back by them (I assume so--there are enough Spaniards and Romanians in the world that this ...

Wittgensteinians lay stress on the idea that One cannot understand central worldview concepts without living as part of a communit...

Gould says: NOMA [Non-Overlapping Magisteria] is a simple, humane, rational, and altogether conventional argument for mutual resp...

Over the last three nights or so, I watched Sita Sings the Blues (available for free on youtube , and downloadable as an almost free DVD)...

Occasionally, the rhetorical question is asked of inerrantists: "What's the use of having an inerrant text, if your interpret...

I showed Babette's Feast once again. I was this time struck by the nuanced critique of a religion of the word. The congrega...

Consider the following thesis: (*) In a liberal democratic society, it is wrong to introduce coercive legislation on religious grounds. Here...