Monday, January 09, 2006

new articles on TCRnews.com

Aristotelian Epistemology and its Revivalby Pope Leo XIII by Dr. John P. Hubert

As a result of several articles which the author has written, a number of questions have come to light which might be of interest to a wider readership. In multiple essays this writer has referred to “epistemology” as “a theory of truth” or “how we know what we know” usually in the overall context of “worldview” bias or its relationship to the fundamental underlying assumptions which are made with regard to certain moral or ethical topics/dilemmas...
How do we know we know?
New Year's Resolutions for 2006 and BeyondA water-shed year?

Catholic Worker Pacifism: An Eyewitness to History by Tom Cornell

Pacifism was not an issue within the Catholic Worker movement in the earliest years. We weren't at war. People came to the New York City center because they wanted to practice the works of mercy and to explore the "building of a new society within the shell of the old," as Peter Maurin put it, "in which it would be easier to be good."
Magnifying the Gospel in Times of War

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Prophet of Human Solidarity by Hermes Donald Kreilkamp

As a member of the Abwehr, Bonhoeffer was able to help Jewish people escape from Germany and, finally, to collaborate with those who sought to wrench the reins of power out of Hitler's hands. It was not easy for him, a former pacifist , to make such a decision; but it seemed to him the course of action that was clearly less evil than collaborating in the killing of millions of human beings. It seemed to him the thing that needed doing before all else.
Every person a conscience

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