Alexander Pruss's Blog

It is considered in bad taste to bring God into contemporary bioethics discussions. Why? Well, one reason is that if one does s...

There is one advantage, however, in the small state, the city, or the village, which only the wilfully blind can overlook. The man who lives...

I think sometimes, especially in popular discussion, the debate over Pelagianism is seen as the "faith versus works" debate...

I am no legal or political theorist, but here is a fun little puzzle, not unlikely old hat to everybody who knows anything about t...

Last night, I found an OK observing site a five minute drive from home. There are some sodium lights 100-200 yards away, but they are beara...

I am Catholic and I don't believe Sola Scriptura. But here I want to engage in some friendly theologizing, trying to figure o...

After having jumped into amateur astronomy, the sky has lost some of its aweful majesty to me. It's beautiful, but not aweful. I thin...

In my previous post I suggested, using amateur astronomy as an example, that an engagement in an activity can have a value over an...

A couple of days ago, I got an 8-inch Newtonian telescope (an old Coulter Odyssey 8 ). I've been wanting to have a decent te...

I can't resist posting this. The following principle seems plausible: You cannot attempt to kill someone whom you know to...

A common objection to seeing marriage as linked not just to sex and reproduction but also to romantic love is the prevalence of arranged mar...

When I say, in class or blog, that some thoughts are immoral, there is much resistance. Sometimes, this resistance is formulated as: "O...

You can never go wrong [note 1] believing a tautology.

According to substitutionary views of the atonement, Christ suffered a suffering that was due to us for our sins. Substitutiona...

In this post, I am not going to distinguish between a doctor's "helping" a patient kill herself and the doctor...