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What Price Philosophy?

By chris | Published: 14 November 2009
A further issue that came out of the Calvin and Servetus thread was what value should we put on the public understanding of Right Religion and Philosophy in any of its various manifestations. Can we put a price on it or should we try? For the sake of this discussion I am assuming that various long-standing [...]
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Moral Relativism

By chris | Published: 13 November 2009
In one of the comments to my post on Calvin and Servetus the spectre of moral relativism was raised. Maybe some people might get offended at this, but I was pleased. I not pleased because I had merely provoked a reaction but because I was pushing a pretty contrarian position so that I could see [...]
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Calvin and Servetus

By chris | Published: 9 November 2009
Paul helm has been running a old and erudite series on Calvin at The Guardian. This week he looks at Calvin’s part in the Geneva authorities’ execution of Michael Servetus, concluding with an ambivalent defence that doesn’t seem quite right to me. The plain fact is that the civil authorities in Geneva, with the support of [...]
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