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Good and Evil — Thinking of Moral Philosophy

Thursday,January 5th, 2012 Leave a comment

I must stress my disclaimers here, especially: These thoughts are my own, if by nothing else, my adopting them because they make sense and sound right. Also, I am by no means an official representative of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Just a member with a few decades of experience on local/district (call it diocese or, stake, as we call it). Please feel free to comment, even if you haven’t read every single word here–this is, after all, 1,500 words. I love learning new stuff.

Also, if you run into any leftover spilling mistokes, please let me know and I’ll fix ‘em.

There are many, who struggle to understand good and evil from a post-modern perspective. Read more…

Just What Is Moral Courage Part 2

Wednesday,September 29th, 2010 Leave a comment

I don’t know how the first one could have been so poorly edited. My editor must have been napping! ;)

But what has happened, as it often does, is that this subject of moral courage has been much on my mind, and I’ve had several opportunities to see and practise it in practice (according to dictionary, the verb takes the “s” and the noun the “c” [NERD POINTS!]).  And as it often does, it seems my views have widened to look at it more from the basic human needs point-of-view. The need for nourishment and shelter are closely followed by the need of dignity, for example. Read more…

Just What Is Moral Courage?

Friday,March 5th, 2010 6 comments

These seem to be lose thoughts, but let’s see if we

It is not long ago since I read Elder Christoffersson’s address Moral Discipline from October 2009 General Conference. Now I came back to similar thoughts after reading Pres. Eyring’s message about Moral Courage in the March 2010 Ensign.

The question that begs asking from my point is what moral courage actually is Read more…

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